adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He ran surprisingly fast on his stumpy legs but eventually he gave up and slowed to a despairing walk.
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Indeed, they can barely manage even to run, for they have only soft ballooning tubes to serve as stumpy legs.
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Instead it has one long ribbon-like fin that runs along its underside from close to its stumpy tail to its head.
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Somnolent now within its low grey walls and stumpy towers, it was once rich on salt, and powerful to boot.
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They are all rather clumsy and fairly large, being distinguished from the parasols of the period by their short stumpy handles.
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They bumped up the stumpy hillside.
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Two stumpy cylinders, covered with brown corduroy, dangled from the edge of the coat furthest from the head.
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Up on Flagler Street, Wayne Elko slouched past the stumpy palms.