podgy
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After an hour their survey was done and the group's leader - a podgy, amiable man in his 60s, according to Capt Singh and others - asked the 28-man crew to gather in the mess.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2021
As a 13-year-old, she writes, she felt "podgy and sad when I had to reach for a garment that was labelled with a number in the high teens".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2018
There might be references to bits of my body that are particularly podgy or scrawny, by way of humorous contrast with the ideal.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2017
THE opening of South Africa’s parliament is always a glitzy affair: podgy politicians strut before the cameras in local garb, ball-gowns and slick suits.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
“I still can’t hear you,” Aarfy complained tolerantly, cupping his podgy hand behind the blanched corolla of his ear.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
In the clothes he wore now he looked podgier than ever, and his round spectacles gave his round face the look of a prim cherub.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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