full-figured

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Adjective
  • Jimmy is a compulsively magnetic figure who keeps everyone at arm’s length, including the audience, and for a film that embodies a voluptuous sense of tragedy, that leaves it undeniably aloof.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • The psychologist leaned forward and clarified that the man meant snow from the sky, and not a ground-level accumulation in the form of a buff snow guy or a voluptuous snow gal.
    Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Adjective
  • Courtesy Palazzo Fiuggi Luna, a buxom woman from Ukraine, submerges me in a tub of warm water, tells me to take deep breaths, and leaves me to do so.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • According to myth, the buxom bowl of the Champagne coupe was modeled after the breasts of Marie Antoinette.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • While dashing through the food hall at River Street Marketplace in San Juan Capistrano, on my way to the train station, a stack of these exceptionally zaftig cookies stopped me dead in my tracks.
    Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Cena, who once filmed Trainwreck pretending to be a closeted bodybuilder desperate for zaftig comedian Amy Schumer’s affection, understands that the joke’s on him better than anyone.
    Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • The bush is shapely, growing 3-4 feet tall, and does not produce rank growth.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Witch hazel matures into shapely shrubs that bloom annually.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Already used to evoking the work of the likes of Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncusi in his footwear offering, which is rich in sculptural and curvaceous heels, this time Andrew was inspired by the metalwork of American furniture designer Paul Evans to develop faceted hardware for spring 2027.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
  • At the Sceners Gallery on the eastern edge of Paris, far from the Metropolitan Museum, where Kim Kardashian arrived at the Met Gala in a metallic orange breastplate with pert breasts and curvaceous hips, there are several examples of the art that inspired her.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Best Things to Do Weisman Art Museum Marked by large sheets of curvy, shimmering metal, Frank Gehry’s eye-catching 1993 design at the University of Minnesota campus is akin to his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
    Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
  • But there were also plenty of Konas and also Ioniq 6s, the curvy sedan with a whale tail.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Pamela Anderson’s progression from over-plucked and busty to fresh-faced and gracefully aging on the red carpet is evidence of culture’s exhaustion with excess.
    Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • One defining moment was when a teenage Johnson and his father were in a comic shop and Johnson was intent on buying a copy of Battle Chasers, a comic known for shapely and busty heroines and plenty of violence.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Wahlberg plays a holy fool in Boogie Nights, our naïve but well-endowed guide through the heyday of theatrical pornography and its decline into something cheaper and tawdrier courtesy of the triumph of VHS.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Colleges that are less well-endowed might have fewer proxies that strain their financial aid budget, but still should use individualized proxies to meet their institutional needs.
    Scott White, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Full-figured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/full-figured. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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