dumpy
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chunky, heavyset, squat, squatty, stocky, stout, stubby, stumpy, thickset
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Tove Lo holds nothing back when explaining exactly why her friend should be glad her dumpy ex-boyfriend is out of the picture. — Stephen Daw, Billboard, "Tove Lo Goes Green For 'Glad He's Gone' Performance On 'Colbert': Watch," 18 July 2019 Remember that at the dawn of the 2010s, the paradigm for an electric car would've been the original Nissan Leaf—a little dumpy, decidedly unsexy, styled to signal the driver's eco-consciousness above all else. — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, "Here Come the Electric Pickup Trucks," 17 Jan. 2019 From the outside, this dance club looks like dumpy warehouse hidden behind a black gate in Roma Norte. — Condé Nast Traveler, "23 Best Things To Do In Mexico City," 4 Mar. 2018 Frankly, Zao Onsen town is dumpy, with outdated lifts, ramshackle base-station infrastructure, and a lack of luxury hotels. — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, "Slow Skiing in Japan's Deep North," 11 Oct. 2018 The color transformed the humble one-story house: In its darker hue, the somewhat dumpy house felt modern—fresh, even. — Laura Fenton, Curbed, "Black is the new black," 1 Aug. 2018 The three-person cast is not afraid to look dumpy or tired or listless. — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, "Apartheid Drama "A Lesson From Aloes" At Hartford Stage Has Powerful, Relevant Message," 29 May 2018 During Ireland’s crazed development binge, seemingly the whole country got caught up in buying and flipping properties—until the music stopped, and everyone was left with dumpy houses and worthless farmland. — WSJ, "Five Best: Lionel Shriver," 4 May 2018 The library system was set to spend $7.5 million this year to begin work on a new branch to replace the sleepy burb's dumpy one. — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, "CLE Chatter: Complaining costs Bay Village new library (for now); TJ Dow proves he's still deplorable; and other tidbits from our town," 27 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dumpy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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