plumpish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plumpish
Adjective
  • However, this innovative design also has drawbacks, including higher price tags, challenging installation, and bulkier frames.
    Laura Lu, Parents, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike bulkier trackers that can fall off a keyring or be easily spotted and removed, the MagTag is built like a credit card and is only 1.5 millimeters thick.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Kevin Rathbun Steak One of Atlanta’s most respected chefs, Kevin Rathbun has a beefy reputation as a steak-master.
    Mike Jordan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Though beefy humanoids like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas have been able to perform terrifyingly impressive feats of acrobatics for the better part of a decade, many of those feats were scripted and the result of meticulous coding and fine-tuning by human engineers.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • The chili verde is soft and succulent and the plump chicken pairs well with any of the three salsas brought to the table.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike the ones now rotting on Ian Chandler’s farm, these had a chance to be harvested by hand and are in their prime — plump and juicy and ready to eat.
    David Culver, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Prior to the arrival of police at the site of the deadly stabbing, a stocky bald man and a thin woman wearing her hair in a ponytail — both described as possibly homeless — were seen leaving the area in separate directions.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The priest was an Assyrian monk, a stocky, bushy-bearded man with long black hair; the girl looked to be about 11.
    John Jeremiah Sullivan James Patrick Cronin Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Meeko and Percy, Pocahontas (1995) How have chubby raccoon Meeko and English bulldog Percy been overlooked all these years?
    EW Staff, EW.com, 27 May 2025
  • His friends described him as chubby, awkward and quick-witted to the Statesman.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • The bank reiterated an overweight rating on the fashion holding company and raised its price target to $120 per share from $100.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Pack strategically to avoid overweight baggage fees and ensure easy access to essential medications.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Another soldier, pudgy and silent, filmed us with his phone, and the Italian activists filmed him in turn.
    Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • These include pudgy realtor and aspiring petting-zoo owner Dawn (Danielle Brooks) and Henry’s blowsy school vice principal (Jennifer Coolidge), who falls in love with one of the Overworld’s unibrow villagers who enters the real-world dimension.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Far from an expression of compassion toward animals, it was inspired by a sense of all fleshy things as evil.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Esparza led us to a pair of women who were serving thick, eggy fritters encasing pacaya, bracingly bitter palm flowers, harvested from the tree’s fleshy spikes and served with beans and rice.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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“Plumpish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumpish. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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