dumpish
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For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels.
From Time Magazine Archive
But though we are natural conservers and causationists, and reject a sour, dumpish unbelief, the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason, and every man, at some time, belongs to it.
From Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gee! but you look dumpish and dressed up," said Katy.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
Can any body be tired, or weary, or dumpish?
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
He is a dumpish sort of person who looks as if he needed exercise, but he has a sharp clear eye.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
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