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  • adjective superlative form of dumpy: most dumpy.

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Examples

  • Chinatown has some of the dumpiest holes in the wall that make better dumplings and for a cheaper price (if you dare to eat “street food”).

    Downtown Lunch: You Don't Have to Eat at McDonald's! | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2009

  • Even though a few hundred unrepresentative "gentrifiers" wearing blinders would like to believe this is Eagle Rock-West, or Glendale-South, it's really Cypress Park-North, and in part because of the HEAVY TRAFFIC already mentioned, it's never going to become some cozy ex-urb watering hole gathering spot, Not lodged between some of the dumpiest McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Denny's, plus sundry 99-cent store variations on all sides.

    Home Depot Seeks 4th store on San Fernando Rd! 2006

  • So there I sat, in my dumpiest of outfits, with my hair a mess because I didn't shower this morning, as the professional took over.

    partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2003

  • The great Fadge himself surprised me; I expected to see a gaunt, bilious man, and he was the rosiest and dumpiest little dandy you can imagine; a fellow of forty-five, I dare say, with thin yellow hair and blue eyes and a manner of extreme innocence.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had “placed” one by one in enviable niches of existence!

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had “placed” one by one in enviable niches of existence!

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had “placed” one by one in enviable niches of existence!

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • I opened the door and in came the dumpiest little woman and two daughters.

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • Yet, given a yard or two or three of satin and a saucer of pins, Smalley could make the dumpiest of debutantes look like a fragile flower.

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!

    House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899

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