stoutish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of stoutish
Example Sentences
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Sportsman Faulding invited along one of his friends, stoutish Mrs. Gertrude Turner, who brought her 8-year-old son Robert.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wallace Irwin is short, stoutish, always smiling through his glasses and snapping his eyes as he talks in little grunting periods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hannah M. Egan, Ph. D. is grey, matronly, stoutish, wears dark wool dresses and is Acting Dean of the largest woman's college in the world�New York City's Municipal Hunter.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bald, stoutish white man went into the store and pulled off his coat.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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