The word "wiry" is correct and usable in written English.
The word is an adjective that is used to describe a person or thing that is thin and sinewy. Example sentence: The old man had a wiry frame, but he was surprisingly strong.
A wiry guy in a blue turtleneck and suède moccasins, he was equable but stubborn.
Wiry and with short-cropped hair flecked with grey, Murphy had worked on building sites most of his adult life, never realising his birdwatching hobby could be a career.
His prose is just so good, wiry and athletic, it feels like it's jumping off the page; or like it might be able to give you a black eye.
David's here, though, friendly yet possessed of an anxious, wiry tension.
I head there to meet 36-year-old chef Rodolfo Guzman, a wiry man with a mop of unkept black hair.
Small, wiry and full of laughter, Rita has a passion for this house at Moustiers St Marie, her land, her truffle orchard, her dogs and the wildlife she fights to preserve.
There's also Chvrches' echoing anthems, Savages' wiry post-punk, and a full slate of bleepy, hooky art-pop.
Formerly the slightly ascetic preserve of men with wiry limbs and dirt-spattered faces, cyclocross is becoming increasingly popular and inclusive.
Traditionally, it has catered for all shapes and sizes big prop forwards, small and wiry scrum-halves, tall and elegant wing three-quarters.
Klee, a Swiss-German artist born in 1879, painted wiry figures on psychedelic backdrops.
CARLITO, a wiry man with greying hair, sits under a palm tree in Mariel, a town on a bay 40km (25 miles) west of Havana, sipping rum and watching a container ship edge out towards the Caribbean.
