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- adjective
comparative form ofstumpy : morestumpy
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Examples
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Participants imagined much stumpier hands than they possessed: They underestimated finger length by about 28% on average and overestimated the distance between knuckles by 67%.
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Saw Big Ben, shorter and stumpier than he remembered it.
The Hard War Child, Lee 2006
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Saw Big Ben, shorter and stumpier than he remembered it.
The Hard Way Child, Lee 2006
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The moon, three-parts full to start with, waxed at each meeting, and their shadows grew nightly denser and stumpier.
Succedaneum 2004
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The Canada porcupine has more hairs than the American, and a shorter and stumpier tail.
The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923
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It was a pity, for she was the stumpier of the two.
The Arbiter A Novel Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell 1890
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I have a German friend in London anxious to wear his legs down stumpier. '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I have a German friend in London anxious to wear his legs down stumpier. '
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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I have a German friend in London anxious to wear his legs down stumpier. '
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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There's not a teaspoon of fat on them, unlike their much shorter, stumpier, heavier father.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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