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bloated

adjective as in swollen

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The research, published on March 1 in the open-access journal Conservation Letters, found that male researchers in predominantly wealthy countries have a severely bloated footprint in the major ecology journals.

A side effect of these kinds of legacy promotional structures is they can lead to bloated organizations.

From Digiday

So, I chose “Dallas,” the iconic nighttime ’80s-era drama about the Ewings, a Texas family bloated with ambition, pride, sexual shenanigans, revenge and money.

Yet the 21st century’s most ruthlessly efficient retailer has been trying for several years now to gain a bigger foothold in the bloated, borderline nonsensical health system of the world’s richest nation.

From Vox

They’d heard politicians pay lip service to caring for American families and American children while raiding school budgets to pay for bloated favors to lobbyists and campaign contributors.

From Fortune

There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.

“It was our own version of what happens when a band becomes over-bloated with its own confidence,” Fogarino, 45, continues.

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

By the time that you see them, they're bloated into surrealist Arcimboldo paintings, into soft constructions of rotten fruit.

Other, bloated and decomposing corpses are piled on top of them.

The bloated enemy, as regards Scotland, was dead before Dr. Campbell had ever penned a line.

He has become the demigod of the bloated manufacturing, mining, and landlord interests throughout the country.

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

According to degree of exposure, their faces were bloated and black or yellow and shrunken.

His bloated face betrayed him an inveterate drunkard; his staring little eyes blinked humbly.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bloated, such as: distended, tumefied, arrogant, intumescent, pompous, and stuffy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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