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lumpy

adjective as in knotty

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Each time was like a tiny jab, till Penelope’s heart felt as full of pins as the lumpy red pincushion carried by Madame LePoint, the dressmaker at Ashton Place.

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She even missed the porridge, which, to be frank, was sometimes lumpy, especially if one let it get cold.

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“There are more important things to think about on Thanksgiving than worrying about a lumpy gravy!”

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Beneath that was a lumpy mass of cooled corium.

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Huge areas of seabed around the Cook Islands are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, lumpy rocks studded with rare earths and critical minerals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese.

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