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Adjective
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In Arthur Penn’s 1975 neo-noir Night Moves, Griffith is Delly Grastner, a 16-year-old runaway with a little girl’s voice and a grown woman’s body—on full display in an underwater nude scene—intent on seducing Gene Hackman, 43 and paunchy.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026 -
There isn’t much room in this palette for public pools or paunchy, suburban retirees.—
Sean Williams,
Outside,
27 Oct. 2025
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The farm is home to goats, Holstein cows, potbellied and kune kune pigs, donkeys, sheep, rabbits, llamas, alpacas, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, geese, chickens, a Shetland pony, and a Shire horse.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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That’s not to say that the potbellied courthouse stooges of Norfolk County can’t rig the case.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
12 June 2025
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And this is in a nice, pretty on-campus facility, not the old, dumpy Astrodome (although the Astrodome is still up, which is another story).—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Jan. 2026
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Sunday brings the end of another dumpy Miami Dolphins season, but not to the problems needing solutions or the organizational mess that demands more than a offseason cleanup on Aisle 5.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2026
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The mattress first, a mattress from time immemorial that proved to be unbelievably heavy, flabby, and seemingly filled with sand.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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Gyms and exercise equipment companies don’t promote their locations and equipment with flabby, lumbering people, rather their ads show fit, upright, energetic individuals.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The birds get loaded underneath the tarp like that, squat cages stacked one on top of the other.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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This is Fazayah, a strip of seven white beaches under rocky slopes dotted with knobbly frankincense trees and squat desert rose trees.—
Anna Zacharias,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Cushions on all sides dial up the comfort factor, and the short, stubby legs keep things grounded in more ways than one.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
22 Jan. 2026
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There’s a real love-is-dead moment when Yas spots Cordelia, who was just rhapsodizing about the purity of her romance with a younger man, literally on her knees before a stubby, old rich guy.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
19 Jan. 2026
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With burly melancholy, Wong plays Ah Tseng, a Chinese migrant worker employed — with his young nephews — in the Rock Springs coal mines, though introduced on an idle day off in their makeshift camp.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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Peat, meanwhile, is a freak athlete, a big burly forward with explosive verticality.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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