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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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
One day in December, a handful of geologists trekked about the site carrying a gravimeter, a blocky instrument that weighs about 25 pounds and is used for surveys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
She painted colorful, flat, blocky, nearly abstract shapes, but often with a distortion or a twist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
A stone’s throw from the Brandenburg Gate, DZ’s stone facade aligns seamlessly with its blocky neighbors on Pariser Platz, providing little hint of its shocking interior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
She has set one foot on the top rung of a ladder when the blocky shoes of Madame Manec come clomping into the kitchen.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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