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How to use dumpy in a sentence

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Unfortunately, too many hits to the head caused a good majority of the players that stayed straight to marry dumpy broads.
Even at that she is badly served by a frumpy blonde wig and clinging dresses that make her look more like a dumpy middle-aged housewife.
Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
Carefully backing away from the newcomer, he waved a hairy-backed hand at his sour, dumpy friend.
She tried to maneuver him to a dumpy sofa studded with a gaudy pattern of crimson roses, but Jack stiffened his knees.
A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous.
There's Elizabeth David's taramasalata and dumpy, crisp and filling fish cakes.
I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in.
In one hilarious scene, this frazzled, menopausal, dumpy housewife eyes up a parking space in the supermarket car park.
Albania's debut entry is a typical europop affair, fronted by a dumpy girl in a cheap dress.
Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
You see attractive women dating schlumps all the time, but when's the last time you saw a decent looking guy with a dumpy woman?
This theme was followed through in the aftermath of that marriage of convenience, as those dumpy princesses found themselves, well, dumped.
Far from being short, thick and dumpy they walk tall as champions of freedom and responsibility.
I fancied that she imagined her wedding to the squinty-eyed, dumpy man sitting beside her.
A dumpy woman wearing maid's clothing picked up a load of dirty sheets and carry it to one of the washing machines.
For all its stoutness, it has a handsome figure, neither dumpy nor high-toned.
Doyenné du Comice pears are large dumpy pears, with a short stem and a yellow-green colour with a brown-russety blush.
Even before he recognized the dumpy bag lady, Sam was running.
A few seconds later a short, dumpy woman cautiously opened the door.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are dumpy little birds and do not look as large as their measurements.
He was small and dumpy and unhandsome, with the dead-white face of a man cook.
As they rose to leave, a dumpy earthwoman rushed up to them, enthusiastically babbling in Terran.
Before me is the low gangetic shore, with the dumpy sand-hills gradually rising from the water's edge.
This gives the boats a dumpy appearance, as they look as if they had been cut short.
It would settle down, at times, and make her squat and dumpy, and then she had to roll herself in the road until her body stretched out again.
Tildy was dumpy, plain-faced, and too anxious to please to please.
One is tall and willowy, while the other is short and dumpy.
Keep cheerful, Miss Yardely, and don't let Stane get dumpy about the past.
Each, too, has a pipe in his mouth, and a little dumpy watch in his right hand.
He was a dumpy, puffy little Italian, and played the heavy father.
This portrait gives the idea of a somewhat dumpy but good-looking damsel, does it not?
Get yourself some dumpy hausfraus for free is a line I've often heard.
Every thing was done as she had desired, and, in five minutes, I was going up Broadway as fast as Honor O'Flagherty's little dumpy legs could carry me.
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