bulky

Even the former head of the federal agency that oversees Medicare recently lamented the bulkiness of the program.
Health-Care Reform Returns Surprising $1.5 Billion Medicare Savings|Daniel Stone|December 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The Greeks found no inconvenience, as we should, in the bulkiness of inscriptions as a means of keeping public records.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6|Various
But ridicule which savours of bulkiness woman had better leave to our sublime sex.
Glimpses of Bengal|Sir Rabindranath Tagore
They are said to have called him the dumb one, or sometimes because of his bulkiness even as a youth, the dumb ox.
The Thirteenth|James J. Walsh

But in mounting the steps his curiosity was awakened by the bulkiness of Linda's letter.
Captain Desmond, V.C.|Maud Diver
Yellow clover is not a really good hay plant, owing to its lack of bulkiness.
Clovers and How to Grow Them|Thomas Shaw

British Dictionary definitions for bulkiness

bulky

/ (ˈbʌlkɪ) /

adjective bulkier or bulkiest

very large and massive, esp so as to be unwieldy

Derived forms of bulky

bulkily, adverbbulkiness, noun

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bulky

adjective, bulk·i·er, bulk·i·est.

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British Dictionary definitions for bulkiness

adjective bulkier or bulkiest

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