plumpish

Example Sentences

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In his teens he was a plumpish fraternity president and cheerleader who played in a country and western trio.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

She was six, a bossy little person, slightly on the plumpish side, with carefully braided and brightly beaded cornrows hanging down across her eyes.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2012

Ralph Pucci, a maker of abstracts, produced a plumpish mannequin a while back, but sold hardly any.

From New York Times • May 5, 2010

Janine is a plumpish, childless French housewife in North Africa; for 25 years her marriage has been nourished on the bread-crumb rations of the need to be needed.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was plumpish and fresh: very red lips and very bright eyes, reddish-brown, the colour of blackberry leaves in autumn, with hair to match.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John