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  • adjective comparative form of chunky: more chunky

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Examples

  • The high inflation reading has ratcheted up expectations that the Reserve Bank of India will have to resort to chunkier rate hikes, building expectations of a 50 basis points move when it next decides on rates Thursday, double the 0.25 percentage points increase that most were earlier anticipating.

    India February Inflation Rises Anant Vijay Kala 2011

  • I especially like wedgie platforms with this look but it also can work with a traditional heel, provided the heel is chunkier.

    Red Room: Deborah Lindquist: Bring Your Summer Wardrobe into Fall -- the Green Way Red Room 2011

  • There seems to be a rule that the chunkier the thighs, the shorter the skirt.

    Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich 2011

  • The taco was a little tough and gristly, but everything was improved by the addition of a generous spoonful of tangy, thin red sauce and a chunkier salsa verde, both served icy-cold.

    Last Night « PubliCola 2010

  • Does Hooters have the right or not to fire girls who are a little chunkier than the ideal? for business reasons?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge 2010

  • It was just a bit chunkier in the mouth, but classy nonetheless.

    What We Drank 2009

  • It wasn't that I was weary of our slow bounce back from recession (if in fact we really are) or afraid of the high unemployment rate still plaguing our country or, on the fashion front, all those Belgian designer-inspired longer hemlines and chunkier shoes I saw coming down the runways for spring.

    Joe Zee: Reality Bites Joe Zee 2010

  • It wasn't that I was weary of our slow bounce back from recession (if in fact we really are) or afraid of the high unemployment rate still plaguing our country or, on the fashion front, all those Belgian designer-inspired longer hemlines and chunkier shoes I saw coming down the runways for spring.

    Joe Zee: Reality Bites Joe Zee 2010

  • It wasn't that I was weary of our slow bounce back from recession (if in fact we really are) or afraid of the high unemployment rate still plaguing our country or, on the fashion front, all those Belgian designer-inspired longer hemlines and chunkier shoes I saw coming down the runways for spring.

    Joe Zee: Reality Bites Joe Zee 2010

  • Now picture the Mirabella five stories taller, a little chunkier, and painted in two shades of pink.

    Big Pink Thing « PubliCola 2010

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