plumpish

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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

A plumpish, graying Washington lawyer who is fond of Dewar's Scotch and Viceroy cigarettes, Sears, 36, was born in Syracuse, N.Y., schooled at Notre Dame and Georgetown University Law Center.

From Time Magazine Archive

A plumpish, kindly-faced man; a bewildered, gentle, unimaginative and somewhat frightened man, fresh-cheeked, eye-glassed.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna