Definitions
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- noun The state of being dumpy.
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- noun The quality of being
dumpy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short and stout physique
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Examples
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While Clowes's art is essentially realistic, he seems to have deliberately emphasized the round-faced dumpiness of Wilson, Pippi and their daughter, Claire.
Daniel Clowes's new graphic novel "Wilson," reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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On this face and that wall, bullet holes decorated the next layer, of dumpiness and squarishness, prettied up on the front with plaster and with bright, childish advertising on the side.
China Miévilling 2006
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On this face and that wall, bullet holes decorated the next layer, of dumpiness and squarishness, prettied up on the front with plaster and with bright, childish advertising on the side.
SeeLight: 2006
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However, in addition to judgments of beauty and ugliness, the contemporary notion of an aesthetic judgment is typically used to characterize a class of judgments that also includes judgments of daintiness, dumpiness, delicacy and elegance.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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The present strategy is to use this Kantian account in order to ground a wider category of the aesthetic, which includes judgments of taste along with judgments of daintiness, dumpiness, delicacy, elegance, and the rest.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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I have no doubt that she longed to rush out, fling herself at my feet, and pray me to forgive her and reconsider my verdict of dumpiness and vulgarity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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He aimed well, and grabbed it, but only to feel the delicious downiness and dumpiness slipping through his fingers as he fell upon his face.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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He aimed well, and grabbed it, but only to feel the delicious downiness and dumpiness slipping through his fingers as he fell upon his face.
Jackanapes 1879
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There were dozens of girls with nineteen-inch waists, before whom I felt myself a monster of dumpiness.
The Golden Calf 1875
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Mrs. Wendover was a dumpy little woman, who had brought dumpiness and a handsome fortune into the family.
The Golden Calf 1875
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