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- adjective
superlative form ofportly : mostportly .
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Examples
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Lawyers, in a drunken caw, renounced the distant day — the portliest member of they, raising his fist with glass in clutch, greeted with a coarse hearhere!
Mr Goosevort Ivan R. 2011
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The Daily News reports today that "For both candidates, Wall Street's investment and banking sectors have become among their portliest cash cows, contributing $9.5 million to Obama and $5.3 million to McCain so far."
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"Very pretty!" murmured the ladies, and the portliest of them went a step further and added: "_And_ cheap!" but no one showed the faintest disposition to buy.
The Love Affairs of Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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Besides his quiet banking vocation, he was, I think, the portliest of the family, which may be the explanation.
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria William Westgarth 1852
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Bartle Meegan's throath, that you and Biddy Martin wor the two portliest weemen that comes into the chapel.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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The fact that it is also the sveltest laptop yet made-it out-thins both the MacBook Air and HP's Envy, measuring just 1.7 centimetres at its portliest point-is almost a secondary selling point next to its sophisticated and alluring design.
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At least, he's the portliest of all the competitors, with a truly epic stomach to go with his tremendously flamboyant Kung Fu.
IGN PS3 2009
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The portliest founder understood that market dynamics reflect appetites, and were thus driven more by the irrational gut than the rational mind.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2009
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