[ UK /kˈɔːpjʊlənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively fat
    a weighty man
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How To Use corpulent In A Sentence

  • The image of corpulent couch potatoes munching deep pan pepperoni and chilli while ogling a television screen for six hours was hard to expel from your mind.
  • Unfortunately, at first Brutus refused to show his corpulent face, and Carter had to contend with a near mutiny from the rest of the frustrated family.
  • She was hovering nervously over a corpulent man in army dress who was stuffing himself with canapés.
  • There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpulent men with a gesticulative manner. Of Human Bondage
  • I queued up in line, next to a rather corpulent farmer's wife.
  • And when you come to America don't you ever insult anybody by calling her corpulent, which is a perfectly indecent expression. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
  • He was a grotesque and corpulent man, almost completely bald, and the fat around his chin gaggled loosely as he talked and shook his head.
  • There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
  • Considering James Dean in like manner, I ended up with a corpulent, bald and bespectacled Rod Steiger, perhaps prettied up a bit.
  • As I waited outside the changing rooms, in came 3 short and corpulent Punjabi middle-aged ladies (well above 50-their age that is) with their Hindi / Punjabi breaking the relative silence like a scythe through the sarson da kheth. Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
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