rotund
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Police publicly released a blurry snapshot of a rotund man in a dark jacket and hat, and the surveillance footage, sparking a flood of online speculation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
His case came to be known as the Fat Leonard scandal because of Francis' rotund frame at that time.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
Where Wayne’s Batman is lithe and graceful, The Penguin is awkward and rotund; while Wayne is charismatic, the Penguin is a weirdo, a quack.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024
This trap contained two fully grown, rotund adults, two balls of bristly fur that had merged into what one member of the trapping team called a single “big squish.”
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2023
“You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent ...” Aarfy was unperturbed.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing rotund
Grade 9, List 3
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This Week in Words: October 22 - 27, 2017
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