stoutish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of stoutish
Example Sentences
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Bernanos is now 54, stoutish, heavy-shouldered, with a grey mustache and grey hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hour later, mystified newshawks were called into an office in New Orleans' Post Office building, recognized instantly a blackhaired, stoutish figure sitting behind a flat-topped desk.
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A dozen eager newshawks faced a stoutish, oldish man, his face serene beneath a tall white mitre, his right hand caressing with a thoughtful gesture the large cross pendant on his breast.
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The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
The speaker was a stoutish man with deep brown eyes: the first man from the bridge.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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