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- adjective
comparative form ofportly : moreportly
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Examples
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About 50 deputies (many of them portlier than I!) stood around.
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Now, 30 years on, older, portlier, unable to draw on the untramelled energy and optimism of youth, they were back.
The Pop Group: still blazing a trail that makes rock look conservative 2010
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About 50 deputies (many of them portlier than I!) stood around.
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The first two installments of a projected seven-volume biography of one of the portlier Founding Fathers.
Cover to Cover 2006
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The first two installments of a projected seven-volume biography of one of the portlier Founding Fathers.
Cover to Cover 2006
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"It's just Joey Q, man, flippin' us the ol' bird," chimed in an even portlier fan, dressed in an even more disheveled Magic T-shirt.
Violence Breaks Out at Funnybook Signing | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Now this was back in Jack Black's "High Fidelity" days, i.e. the non-mega-famous days, when he was portlier, unkempt, and completely unrefined.
You Better Watch It.... Two Times! Michelle Collins 2006
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Now this was back in Jack Black's "High Fidelity" days, i.e. the non-mega-famous days, when he was portlier, unkempt, and completely unrefined.
Archive 2006-06-01 Michelle Collins 2006
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A taxi 'stand was two blocks away on the Avenue, and as Willa stepped into the first cab, a taller, portlier figure entered the second, and followed slowly but persistently through the maze of traffic.
The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant
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The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers.
The Baronet's Bride May Agnes Fleming 1860
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