dumber

Example Sentences

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The drab brown print dresses and dowdy necklines make her look dumpier than nature or the part demand.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2011

Piper saw a different person—fatter, dumpier, in a much louder, leopard-patterned shirt.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

His clothes seemed coarser; his hands and feet were awkward; his body dumpier; his face rounder and more freckled.

From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth

I put down my charcoal as Blanquette entered, bare-headed—wise girl, she scorned hats and bonnets—and as neatly dressed as her figure daily growing dumpier would allow.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

Then they became conscious that a smaller and dumpier figure was standing in the darkness by the side of Willie.

From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir