Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.
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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