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To the dismay of more portly ministers in tow, he also made a habit of jogging onto stage at public events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

For a long time, Kundan Lal Gujral - whom the newspaper described as "a portly, florid" man with a "splendid moustache" - was credited for the booming success.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024

As I grew up, a frequent refrain from friends and family members—in particular my zaftig aunts and portly uncles—was to opine about how they wished they were slim like me.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023

Fudge, a portly little man in a long, pinstriped cloak, looked cold and exhausted.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Mr. Gong’s Abby, older and portlier, is a terrier-beagle.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

"Most excitingly, our treasured, mischievous Peter Rabbit makes an appearance – albeit older, slower and portlier."

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2016

As the luckless Vinnie, Mr. Van Swearingen, considerably shorter and portlier than Mr. Shannon, sports the saddest-looking combover I’ve ever seen — it’s really a half-combover.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2013

“She’s talking to my twin,” he said, apparently not offended that Mr. Asner is portlier than the real thing.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2011

"I'll tell you when I come back—wait till I bring you the portlier, first."

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

"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 Charlotte Mary Yonge

“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 Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Of course they must!—the case was as plain as the portliest of noses on the most rubicund of faces.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

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 William Carleton

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 Mary Mapes Dodge