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Meanings of dumpy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "squat"
Examples for "squat"
1
Each one was different, some small and squat, others tall and long.
2
I squat down on a cushion; I don't know what to say.
3
Her attention wandered to the squat Chinese god in the glass case.
4
Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.
5
The girls were brought and made to squat in front of him.
1
A chunky version makes a good salsa verde to serve on steak.
2
A chunky female traffic cop waved an orange, diamond-shaped sign at us.
3
Fittings are of pleasing chunky wood, towels feel robust rather than fluffy.
4
To woo Japanese retail investors and others, SoftBank is promising chunky dividends.
5
Sompo is taking out a chunky U.S. insurance policy against domestic decline.
1
The Land Cruiser passed through a grove of low, stumpy palm trees.
2
In place of the heel there was an additional broad, stumpy toe.
3
It was low; it was stumpy, clumpy, sturdy, bear-like, and altogether odd.
4
They were following drag marks, and over the top, wide stumpy footprints.
5
That's why Bruin goes about with a stumpy tail this very day.
1
The house was low and squatty and was built of rock.
2
On a pantry shelf there once lived a funny squatty-looking pitcher-man.
3
I nodded to the attendant, a squatty, dark-skinned woman with an unhappy face.
4
The farmhouse was black, a squatty black blot on the landscape.
5
That squatty place's the gymnasium; and them two littler houses of brick's the laboratories.
1
He had the same chubby cheeks, low-set ears, thin lips, broad features.
2
The low-set fellow made a rush forward, but Rouge Gosselin held him back.
3
Another low-set style is cube in shape and stackable.
4
The speaker was a bearded, swarthy, low-set man, who looked out from the cabin of a pungy boat.
5
But Carolyn's hair was drawn back plainly from her forehead, and was gathered in a small, low-set knot.
Usage of dumpy in English
1
Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.
2
A dumpy, motherly somebody in a seal-skin coat and a preposterous bonnet.
3
And this lady with the dumpy dress and short blue curls .
4
I like restaurants that are a little bit dumpy, without much decor.
5
She was middle-aged and dumpy, and smelled of sour sweat and cigarettes.
6
Silver recognized the voice and the dumpy figure of his visitor.
7
Michael could at least have the decency to look dumpy sometimes, Maria thought.
8
One was short and dumpy, the other was tall and thin.
9
She was no longer the dumpy little matron with whom he had spoken.
10
The duchess straightened her dumpy figure to its greatest possible height.
11
She was slender, a head taller than the dumpy Mrs. Morgan.
12
The captain, who was short and dumpy, worshiped tall, plump women.
13
She had her charms, nevertheless, which consisted of a somewhat stumpy dumpy comeliness.
14
Beside him was a dark-haired woman in a dumpy gray suit.
15
It did that by itself, and a pair of short dumpy legs appeared.
16
The woman was older and dumpy, her mouth tight with disgust.
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Dumpy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common