lumpish

Example Sentences

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The contrast with Durant’s lumpish Johnny makes no sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

Justine, in middle age, is a compulsive runner who wishes she’d traveled more when young and hadn’t settled for Steve, her lumpish husband.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2021

As for Seb, he does talk—and how and when he talks is yet another mark of Chazelle’s lumpish taste.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 8, 2016

This is just what writing is: gathering your lumpish thoughts, putting them in the proper order, and honing them until they take definite shape.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2014

It was dark out there, but you could see the lumpish shapes of the Cowgill boys hanging around the milk wagon, waiting for their paw.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck