How To Use Dumpy In A Sentence
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I played with the dumpy stem of the brandy glass, smirking at Ashley through the candle flame.
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Goofy cartoons of older men and women looking tacky and dumpy (thinking stereotypical Miami) in mu mu’s and oversized sunglasses
Just Say Don’t—The Sequel (The Boomer Blog)
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Mr. Purvis looked muzzily at the dumpy madonna with the ninnyish smile.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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When riskily was worse addison real estate to go slapdash, the episome nazimova wastrel dumpy zostera.
Rational Review
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She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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It was somewhat grotesque, all those dumpy women smiling at each other, making marketplace noise.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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This theme was followed through in the aftermath of that marriage of convenience, as those dumpy princesses found themselves, well, dumped.
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In the grainy surveillance camera footage, the dumpy, mustachioed fellow looks like just one more office peon saddled with a balky computer - until he takes his revenge.
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Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
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She wasn't quite lean, but she wasn't very dumpy either.
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A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous.
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I watch the smug curve in his mouth and smell the sneezy air of the dumpy, dampy, danky, dark dungeon office that Inspicorp keeps for the drops offs and pick ups of all the seeds and shit.
Bonnie: The Uninspired Muse
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The ceremony took place in a little chappel that was part of a cheap/dumpy motel.
Read It!
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I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in.
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I played with the dumpy stem of the brandy glass, smirking at Ashley through the candle flame.
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References such as this, particularly as a lead, reinforce the prejudice that talented women must also be attractive. What if the subject had been a dumpy figure wearing dresses down to her ankle?
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Nay," declared a dumpy figure with big ears and the frenzied face of a maniacal toadfish, "we must work together to defeat the likes of the late and unlamented Susnam Evyndd, may his pure and noble soul lie corrupted and befouled forever.
Kingdoms of Light
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It was somewhat grotesque, all those dumpy women smiling at each other, making marketplace noise.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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A frankly dumpy madonna in a nondescript landscape simpered at the viewer with a look you could only describe as ninnyish.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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I played with the dumpy stem of the brandy glass, smirking at Ashley through the candle flame.
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There's Elizabeth David's taramasalata and dumpy, crisp and filling fish cakes.
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Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
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She tried to maneuver him to a dumpy sofa studded with a gaudy pattern of crimson roses, but Jack stiffened his knees.
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What really cracks me up about this pic is the dumpy assistant or fan or whoever standing behind her in boat shoes/ fishnets/ denimskirt/ tee and suit jacket.
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A few seconds later a short, dumpy woman cautiously opened the door.
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A dumpy woman wearing maid's clothing picked up a load of dirty sheets and carry it to one of the washing machines.
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His dumpy women bathers at the Hermitage and the Leiden Museum sit under such trees, with Rembrandtian simplicity dabbling their feet in mere runnels of water.
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You see attractive women dating schlumps all the time, but when's the last time you saw a decent looking guy with a dumpy woman?
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A dumpy Japanese is asking for you.
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Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
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a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
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Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
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She described her look for the film as ‘completely unglamorous, almost no make-up, bit of a dumpy potato’.
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A short dumpy woman appeared from behind the counter.
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The little dumpy girl was one of two serving.
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She was a dumpy woman, dressed in black, with a mouth that snapped shut like a mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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The body is dumpy, tapering to an acorn-shaped posterior; the legs are very long, resembling those of the spider when outspread; the hinder legs are disproportionately long and curved, being thus excellently adapted to enlace and press the little pilule of dung.
Social Life in the Insect World
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The previous, small, dumpy, and rather informal silver coins were replaced by broader, thinner and heavier silver pennies which carried the name of the king and the moneyer.
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I fancied that she imagined her wedding to the squinty-eyed, dumpy man sitting beside her.
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Very soon, a small, dumpy figure in a shaggy brown overcoat appeared, lugging a large sack.
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Carefully backing away from the newcomer, he waved a hairy-backed hand at his sour, dumpy friend.
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At daybreak yesterday we were steaming up a branch of the great Me-kong river in Cochin China, a muddy stream, densely fringed by the nipah palm, whose dark green fronds, ten and twelve feet long, look as if they grew out of the ground, so dumpy is its stem.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Benjamin Franklin Bache the grandson of his namesake referred to the short and dumpy Adams in his newspaper, Aurora, as "His Rotundity," whose appearance was so much "sesquipedality of belly.
Gingrich and the History of Negative Campaigns
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Even before he recognized the dumpy bag lady, Sam was running.
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Squatting brings to mind that thing that dogs do before they do their dog's do; squat also means ‘short and thick, dumpy’ according to my dictionary; and diddly-squat is a more colourful phrase for naff all.
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Far from being short, thick and dumpy they walk tall as champions of freedom and responsibility.
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Another dumb journalist who will probably confuse a Derbyshire redcap with a Scots dumpy.
The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'
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At Champney Crucis Kate directed the driver up a lane beside the dumpy little church.
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She was a dumpy woman, dressed in black, with a mouth that snapped shut like a mousetrap.
SNOWLINE
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She was assisted by a familiar, dumpy middle-aged woman whose viridescent tinge owed nothing to her green dress.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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And my brother Dave and I - he's the shorter dumpy one - you know the one I mean.
