dumpy
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The Microsoft mogul rode into the NBA in 2014 as an energetic savior, paying a then-spectacular $2 billion for a sidekick franchise with a dumpy rep and a toxic owner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Speaking about her weight and obesity in a TV special, the US broadcaster and actress said she would "never forget" called "bumpy, lumpy and down right dumpy" on a magazine cover.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
"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 felt utterly dumpy and completely put in her place, which, of course, was exactly what he’d been going for.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
I put down my charcoal as Blanquette entered, bare-headed—wise girl, she scorned hats and bonnets—and as neatly dressed as her figure daily growing dumpier would allow.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
Madame Dépine was round, and grew dumpier with age; "Madame" Valière was long, and grew slimmer.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
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 Sir Hall Caine
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 Edith Wharton
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 Edna Ferber
