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
Yonder comes an ocean-steamer, long, low, and black, with a tri-color flag at the stern, slowly and puffily tugged by a little pilot-boat.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
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
Her face was draped puffily upon its unseen bones, and of an unwholesome color because of indigestion.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"You wait here," said the Captain, rising, heavily and puffily to his feet.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
