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portly

adjective as in bulky, fat

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To the dismay of more portly ministers in tow, he also made a habit of jogging onto stage at public events.

But the portly housekeeper was already chugging back the way she came.

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The way American newspapers caricatured his portly build and bald head, portraying him like some stubby supervillain sprung from the pages of one of their ludicrous comic books.

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Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

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"Cyril", as he is known to some, is said to be a portly man with a very gruff voice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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