pleasingly plump

Example Sentences

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Logan Webb and Jesse Plemons: Their round, pleasingly plump faces belie an intensity and attention to detail that enables them to excel at their crafts.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023

Liberation was the theme - musical, racial and personal - in a story set in Baltimore 1962 and led by the pleasingly plump Tracy Turnblad.

From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2016

And last month New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan charged that the well-paid bureaucrats have "grown pleasingly plump with their own self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

Right now I'm overdoing this pleasingly plump business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grandpa Izzy says that Margaret is zaftig, which is Yiddish for pleasingly plump.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg