tubby
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Of all the things to say about Gaetz … tubby?
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2024
In 2019, the state Department of Environmental Conservation evicted a tubby cat named Stormy from the general store in Fritz Creek where it had been living, as the feline’s presence violated food sanitation rules.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
How could Disney allow the pants-adverse tubby little cubby to be portrayed in such a way?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
“One or two of them are quite tubby and got stuck at the bottom,” says Peter.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2020
It was hard for me to imagine Call’s tubby little grandmother taking a switch to a large fifteen-year-old boy, but I held my peace.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
The singers Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Hudson are showing off newly slender bodies to entice tubbier folks to follow their example.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
Though the Chairman was tubbier and more paternal, he was just as embalmed by celebrity as Jackie Kennedy or Elvis Presley, Warhol's earlier subjects.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other was a smaller and tubbier man, pleasant to look upon, a man evidently who lived for and by good eating and drinking.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Slick and smear it over and leave it sounding sicklier and tubbier and more generally disgusting than ever.
From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed.
From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London
