squatty
Americanadjective
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Wyatt Mills gave up a two-run single to squatty pinch-hitter Alejandro Kirk in the seventh and Roenis Elias, who was activated for Monday’s game, allowed an RBI single to Bichette in the eighth inning.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Joseph is 6 feet 4 and 329 pounds and plays a position — nose tackle — that even sounds stagnant and squatty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
At 6 feet 2 and about 250 pounds, Karras was squatty and powerful.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2012
We wandered down Congress Street, so called because it borders a neighborhood of cenotaphs, the short, squatty little markers designed by Benjamin Latrobe for the congressmen and senators.
From Washington Post
The squatty shoemaker made the giant woman dance with him.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
He stands back as the shorter, squattier of the two holds up something resembling Dad’s electric drill.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
And then she began to grow shorter and thicker, and fatter and squattier.
From The Old Soldiers Story Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
Her head is set on her neck like a clothes-pin, only she is squattier than a clothes-pin.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill
On one of these points a large, broad-nosed hippo was standing, looking as shapeless as if it had been roughly modelled in mud, and set upon four legs of the shortest and squattiest kind.
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
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