dumpiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumpiness
Noun
  • Losing sight of this has meant that faculty haven’t been using all of the tools at their disposal to fight the disintegration of tenure-stream employment.
    Time, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For director and co-writer Justin Tipping, the key to expressing Cameron’s mental and physical disintegration was finding a visual language that combined two very different worlds.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite years of legal battles over the relocations, more than 150,000 bodies were exhumed from the 1920s to the early 1940s for the trip to Colma, each in various stages of decay.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Why didn’t evolution produce a more dependable version of the human body, less prone to malfunction and decay?
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The causes of the deterioration are different in each case, and some of Washington’s grievances against Brazil, India, and South Africa—global swing states that will help dictate which country leads the world—are legitimate.
    Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2025
  • According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, CMT causes a range of sensory and motor symptoms, including numbness, tingling, pain, muscle weakness and atrophy — deterioration in cells, tissues, and organs.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Dumpiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumpiness. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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