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Meanings of bulkiness in English

Catalan
embalum
Spanish
voluminosidad

An unwieldy largeness.

embalum
Usage of bulkiness in English
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I felt a bulkiness below me and knew it was my purse.
Death du Jour
2
They threshed about, the bulkiness of the fur clothing hampering them.
The Time Traders
3
Ariel Sharon and Ian Paisley shared more than bulkiness and belligerence.
The Irish Times
4
Bulky Miss Wendover decidedly was, but she carried her bulkiness well.
The Golden Calf
5
But ridicule which savours of bulkiness woman had better leave to our sublime sex.
Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana...
6
Yellow clover is not a really good hay plant, owing to its lack of bulkiness.
Clovers and How to Grow Them
7
In spite of the bulkiness of his body there was a remarkable grace in his movements.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
8
He was fastidious about his clothes, and his tailor cleverly hid the bulkiness of his figure.
Lister's Great Adventure
9
The sheer bulkiness of power drills makes them harder to pack for long hikes to remote areas.
Climbing Magazine
10
Muscle harvesting time, total operating times, blood loss, and bulkiness of the flap were analyzed and compared.
Pubmed
11
We did wish that the leather arch reinforcements for the Velcro straps had a lower profile to reduce bulkiness.
Climbing Magazine
12
But the Razer Tiamat 7.1 carries this ear-side bulkiness with a touch of panache.
Wired
13
Stick it in your back pocket, and its bulkiness requires you to take it out when you sit down.
Wired
14
She tried on the wraps, and the hats which came up finally with Calvin staggering beneath the bulkiness of the box.
The Trumpeter Swan
15
There was a peaked helm on his head, of black-painted steel, and the bulkiness of his tunic suggested a breastplate underneath.
Empire in black and gold
16
There is no doubt that many are sceptical, citing reasons ranging from the potential bulkiness of the technology to lack of demand.
BBC
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