dumpish
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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’m not nearly so dumpish as I was the day I sealed that packet and set my directions upon it.
From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider
Can any body be tired, or weary, or dumpish?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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 Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
The horse appears dumpish, refuses to eat, mouth hot, in six or twelve hours the appetite diminishes, legs and eyelids swell.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
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