dumpish
Americanadjective
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For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels.
From Time Magazine Archive
And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
"I don't know what's the matter, but he's been uncommonly dumpish; we've been as near as possible to quarrelling for half a dozen miles back."
From Queechy, Volume I by Warner, Susan
My chicks are about three weeks old and have always been strong and sturdy, but when taken sick first appear a little dumpish, then the head seems a little heavy and the neck lengthens out.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
"I'm thinkin' it looks a bit dumpish midships, Ned," said Battersleigh dubiously.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
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