puffy
adjective
puffily
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a word derived from
puffy.
Example Sentences
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Today, he puffily points out that the estate left by his late wife "is one of the largest now pending" in the local courts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mike’s attentive ear noted that the bright speech was a shade more puffily delivered this time.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
With an assumption of innocence I turned to leave the sacred edifice, when an obese form stood in the portal, puffily demanding Joseph, or in default of Joseph, Celia.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Fat women who could speak little or no English were here and there puffily dismantling, exchanging the hotel work-uniform for street garments.
From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker
Then she noticed how stout Jack had grown—he would soon be almost as plethoric as Herbert Melson, who sat a few feet off, breathing puffily as he leaned his black-gloved hands on his stick.
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
