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portly

adjective as in bulky, fat

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The Trojans defeated Notre Dame 17-13, giving the portly Robinson a 67-14-2 record at USC.

A portly gentleman celebrating the University of Missouri’s homecoming victory that weekend informed me “Everybody in America wants Trump. He’s good for the economy, hates immigrants and won’t let people like me get replaced.”

From Salon

They think of the mythic Valenzuela of 1981, the shy, portly pitcher with the unorthodox delivery who conquered all by giving his all.

By this point, the buzz and attention surrounding the portly left-hander had reached a fever pitch, and the impact was as wide as it was sudden.

Veteran British actor Sir Ian McKellen says a fat suit that he wore to play the famously portly Shakespearean character Falstaff saved him from even worse injuries when he fell from a London stage in June.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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