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Meanings of corpulence in English
Portuguese
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carnositat Synonyms
Examples for "overweight"
Examples for "overweight"
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At least 40 million children over the age of five are overweight.
2
However, overweight is not considered serious enough to jeopardize life as yet.
3
Five years ago 35 year old Sara Byers was unfit and overweight.
4
Interestingly, it hasn't always been the case that overweight people lived longer.
5
Conclusions: Simple traffic-light charts facilitate discussion of child overweight status with parents.
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But bear in mind that obesity and stoutness are not synonymous terms.
2
The borrowing is often honest enough and comes of magnanimity and stoutness.
3
His stoutness had gone, and he was as lean as Abraham Lincoln.
4
What is the rationale for the admiration of slimness as against stoutness?
5
She was a large, high-bosomed woman, powerfully built, and inclined to stoutness.
Usage of corpulence in English
1
This is all about rising standards of corpulence, of defining fatness upwards.
2
He was equally distinguished for his courage, his cruelty, and his corpulence.
3
It was accepted like one boy's red hair and another's unreasonable corpulence.
4
The consumption of RTE cereals also appears to be associated with lower corpulence.
5
And, in general, those predisposed to corpulence are therefore less inclined to marriage.
6
How often will depend on the corpulence and other circumstances of each individual.
7
Since then, memes imagining a security crackdown on corpulence have multiplied.
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The vivacity of his movements made his huge corpulence subtly alarming.
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The corpulence which had been his before was become now a positive disease.
10
With them corpulence and beauty appear to be terms nearly synonymous.
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He was clearly not old, though his corpulence added to his apparent age.
12
Enter the clink of coin and the unctuous corpulence of a roll of bills.
13
His gravity and corpulence had something almost priestly in character.
14
The priest was a young man somewhat inclined to corpulence.
15
But on account of his corpulence Colman declined his services.
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He was, moreover, strongly inclined to corpulence, and was clad in clumsy, ill-fitting garments.
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Translations for corpulence
Corpulence through the time
Corpulence across language varieties
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