stubby

“They’re snitches,” he said, raising a stubby thermal scope to one eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

"Its stubby little arms with only one row of suckers set it apart from most octopus we are familiar with," Voight said.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

The complaints roll in: The fork tines are too stubby, the dessert spoon holds its contents hostage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

You don't get a tick in the box if the name on the ballot paper means nothing to the voter clutching their stubby pencil in the voting booth.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

There were men, and women, and people who seemed the height of little kids but had flat stubby heads and wore pastel suits in various colors, so they looked like short, running sticks of chalk.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

They're essentially shorter, stubbier, and wider pasta noodles, compared to rigatoni.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022

Passed between multiple chambers by a second, stubbier robotic arm on the rover’s underbelly, the sample was sized up and photographed before finally being hermetically sealed and cached.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021

Those sycamores are expanding horizontally, creating a canopy over the stubbier plants.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021

When he straightens up and steps forward, pointing to an infielder or giving his pitcher an extra breath or two, his pads and mask make him even stubbier.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2015

Those of the red fir are shorter, stubbier and stiffer than those of the white.

From The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James