dumpy
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But she brushed off the barbs, saying: "I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster – what the hell."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But unlike the notoriously dumpy Slough House setting of “Slow Horses,” much of “MI-5” took place — though was not shot — inside the agency’s grand Thames House headquarters in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
"Coxen's fig-parrots are small, dumpy, green parrots with very short tails, and historically they were scattered in rainforests between Bundaberg in Queensland and the Hastings River in New South Wales," Mr Backstrom said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
She reflects on all the varied, tender memories a dumpy local chain store can hold, and what was lost when her daughter’s Walgreens closed.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2023
He was a short, dumpy man, and his wife fitted roughly the same description.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
The drab brown print dresses and dowdy necklines make her look dumpier than nature or the part demand.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2011
Piper saw a different person—fatter, dumpier, in a much louder, leopard-patterned shirt.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Then they became conscious that a smaller and dumpier figure was standing in the darkness by the side of Willie.
From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir
His clothes seemed coarser; his hands and feet were awkward; his body dumpier; his face rounder and more freckled.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth
Madame Dépine was round, and grew dumpier with age; "Madame" Valière was long, and grew slimmer.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel
The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!
From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith
Yet, given a yard or two or three of satin and a saucer of pins, Smalley could make the dumpiest of debutantes look like a fragile flower.
From Emma McChesney and Co. by Ferber, Edna
