Thesaurus / portliness
FEEDBACKsynonyms for portliness
synonyms for portliness
- adiposity
- breadth
- bulkiness
- corpulence
- distension
- flab
- flesh
- fleshiness
- girth
- grossness
- heaviness
- heftiness
- inflation
- largeness
- obesity
- plumpness
- protuberance
- pudginess
- rotundity
- size
- stoutness
- tumidity
- weight
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How to use portliness in a sentence
He was a large man, tall, with broad shoulders and somewhat inclined to portliness.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS AS LIEUTENANTSH. IRVING HANCOCKOne cannot sing of the reverse: no poet could seriously lift up his voice in praise of her "ample waist" or "graceful portliness."
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 22, NOVEMBER, 1878VARIOUSHis height is about five feet ten inches; his figure very well made and slightly inclining to portliness.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOL. 13, NO. 78, APRIL, 1864VARIOUSHe was then thirty-one years of age, and of a compact, well-built figure, inclining to portliness.
THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADA REBELLION, VOLUME 1JOHN CHARLES DENTThe other, solid almost to portliness, was suggestive of fixity—of self-dependence, and unsusceptibility to outside influences.
THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADA REBELLION, VOLUME 1JOHN CHARLES DENTMr. Anthony slid down in his chair, and clasped his hands across his portliness.
THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIESMARGARET COLLIER GRAHAMMiss Upton's extreme portliness had caused her hours of laborious selection to fatigue her greatly.
IN APPLE-BLOSSOM TIMECLARA LOUISE BURNHAMImagine all this overlaid with a certain portliness of bearing, suggestive of the high-and-dry Oxford scholar.
FROM A CORNISH WINDOWARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCHHe was of middle height and of a habit of body inclining to portliness, and his age may have been forty.
THE STROLLING SAINTRAPHAEL SABATINIFoker gave all these details to the doctor, but he none the less bewailed his portliness.
THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERASJULES VERNEWORDS RELATED TO PORTLINESS
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