dumpy
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But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Coxen's fig-parrots are small, dumpy, green parrots with very short tails, and historically they were scattered in rainforests between Bundaberg in Queensland and the Hastings River in New South Wales," Mr Backstrom said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
She reflects on all the varied, tender memories a dumpy local chain store can hold, and what was lost when her daughter’s Walgreens closed.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2023
She nails the ennui of middle age: Josh has depleted his trust fund; Tess, despite her lawyerly mien, struggles with self-loathing; Kate views herself as dumpy, an afterthought to her older, handsome brothers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Patricia’s calendar was tiny and dumpy, and for each month there was a stunning little pencil sketch of a scene from Hailsham life.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
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 William John Locke
Madame Dépine was round, and grew dumpier with age; "Madame" Valière was long, and grew slimmer.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
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 Worth Brehm
Yet, given a yard or two or three of satin and a saucer of pins, Smalley could make the dumpiest of debutantes look like a fragile flower.
From Emma McChesney and Co. by Edna Ferber
The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
