portliness

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Following the advice of numerous obesity experts, the Department of Health has decided that the name of the final, portliest category � very overweight � was a more sensible choice than obese.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Nay, fair one, you pass not our bounds without toll," said the portliest of the set.

From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He grew to be very thin before he died, thinner than Benjamin Dobbs, who is now portliest among the portly.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes

Faix, my modher, no longer ago than Friday night last, argued down Bartle Meegan's throath, that you and Biddy Martin wor the two portliest weemen that comes into the chapel.

From Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

“Very pretty!” murmured the ladies, and the portliest of them went a step further and added: “And cheap!” but no one showed the faintest disposition to buy.

From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.