a dumpy guy in his forties dumpy little toddlers growing into lanky children
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At the start of the production, when Blanche arrives at her sister’s dumpy apartment, a lithe young man (Jabez Sykes) contorts himself in abstract choreography.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025 In context, Franklin was critiquing a rather dumpy drawing of an eagle lacking a regal beak by the Society of the Cincinnati, which had adopted the nation’s bird as its symbol.—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024 In fact, it was released during the slightly less dumpy dump month of February — on February 13, 1991, with nationwide sneak previews on February 2, 1991.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2024 In the premiere, Martha is made to look as dumpy and pathetic—and then as unhinged—as possible.—Judy Berman, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dumpy
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