zaftig
Example Sentences
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Especially commendable is Zamit, who in addition to Mrs. Darling and the housekeeper, plays a Tinkerbell too zaftig to fly, among other roles.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
Now a Guggenheim fellow, Machado was once conditioned to accept that zaftig women are undeserving of worship.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2019
Having recently hit 221.2 on the scale, I’m no longer forgivably chubby or husky, zaftig or big-boned.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2015
In 2007, fat pigeons swarmed into Liverpool, England, pecking and pooping and plodding about, and so upset the locals that the City Council brought in 10 robotic peregrine falcons to scare off the zaftig varmints.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2012
Bubbe Frieda had never been zaftig, but she had had the good taste to wear what is called "a dressmaker bathing suit."
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.