blocky
Americanadjective
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heavily built; solid; stocky.
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marked by blocks or patches of unequally distributed light and shade, as in a photograph.
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And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The furniture company known for its Swedish meatballs and blocky “Kallax” shelving units has found a home inside the old Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Preparation H’s blue and yellow package and blocky white logo appear sober by comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The game’s blocky bizarro aesthetic has given it global recognition; its free-range exploration on a terrain the size of Neptune has earned it over $3 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
Miles away, we could see the blocky shape of a freighter steaming south, and a few deep-sea boats trolling back and forth.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
The tweaking was in the details: the altered check, the blockier logo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
These authors also suggested that C. megalodon had a deeper, blockier skull than the Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2013
Sadly, what we can probably expect, is another Skyline or Battlefield Los Angeles, just with blockier aliens, who slowly advance towards Earth in a predictable rectangular formation.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2011
They were all a little blockier than the human parts they were meant to correspond to, but they were recognizable.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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