stubby
Example Sentences
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The next day the art teacher, Miss Harrison, stopped Louella in the hall and gave her a bunch of stubby crayons for Howard.
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He wore black turtlenecks, short-sleeved because it was summer, and kept a stubby, utterly earnest ponytail.
From Salon
“Do you mind if I take some notes?” he asked, and removed a stubby pencil from his coat pocket.
From Literature
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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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These thrust differentials are coordinated with dual flaps on the trailing edges of the stubby wings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.