adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clara was a plain, dumpy woman, several years older than her husband.
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I think this skirt makes me look dumpy .
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In his youth, William had been a dumpy little boy who ate too many sweets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Champney Crucis Kate directed the driver up a lane beside the dumpy little church.
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George had a wife, Martha, who was dumpy and plain.
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Kitty, her heroine, is dumpy , spotty, pallid and downtrodden.
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Now it was just a dumpy little building.
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She was a small, dumpy woman, nothing like her only child in either looks or personality.
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The little dumpy girl was one of two serving.