stoutish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of stoutish
Example Sentences
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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
Short, stoutish Mr. Gravell says he is "about 60."
From Time Magazine Archive
Barth�l�my Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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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