elephantine

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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

“My wobbling, elephantine car is no match for his agile V12 Mercedes, but I somehow keep up,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

But a few kinds of mammals, like our elephantine friends and our fellow primates, have arrangements of mammary tissue on the chest.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2024

Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole