podgy
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After an hour their survey was done and the group's leader - a podgy, amiable man in his 60s, according to Capt Singh and others - asked the 28-man crew to gather in the mess.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2021
As a 13-year-old, she writes, she felt "podgy and sad when I had to reach for a garment that was labelled with a number in the high teens".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2018
THE opening of South Africa’s parliament is always a glitzy affair: podgy politicians strut before the cameras in local garb, ball-gowns and slick suits.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters The faces staring out from the prints covering the wall of a tiny museum in Tokyo are uniformly podgy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2010
The man with the twisted face pointed and his closest companion, a podgy, pallid man, started forward, but a moment later they had relaxed into their previous state of inactivity, looking frustrated and disappointed.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
In the clothes he wore now he looked podgier than ever, and his round spectacles gave his round face the look of a prim cherub.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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