dumpish
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- dumpishly adverb
- dumpishness noun
Etymology
Origin of dumpish
Example Sentences
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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
I was a little dumpish in the journey, for I seemed leaving my Susan again.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny
"It's nothing new, aunt Miriam,—only somehow I felt it particularly this morning,—I have been kept in the house so long by this snow I have got dumpish I suppose.—"
From Queechy by Warner, Susan
A collapse takes place, the secretions become impaired, the animal refuses its food, "looks dumpish," &c.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
"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
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