How To Use Lumpish In A Sentence
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Silent and lumpish, he seems to live chiefly through the random fixations of his senses.
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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It is clumpish and the flowers last, um, I don’t really know the answer to that one.
Wildflowers Of May* « Fairegarden
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She feels it hanging round her like a great, lumpish stone.
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For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
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The hands, however, did no good, for she was scarcely a few feet in the door when she tripped heavily over something large and lumpish, and half face-planted into a wall, legs still tangled in the object she'd tripped over.
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The buildings are formed from quite blunt, lumpish volumes, which are then cut and deformed according to an abstract procedure.
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Dolements could beset anyone, but especially a fiddlefaced glumpish fellow whose grum and glum afflicted all of his friends and neighbors with a severe outbreak of the humpy-grumpies.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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I shall go all gloomy and glumpish if you scold me as soon as we get here, " complained Snubby.
The Rubadub Mystery
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My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents: indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
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She'll give us her most glumpish look, " said Snubby.
The Rubadub Mystery
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In Tiny Furniture it's privileged misery -- the romantic humiliation of a plumpish young woman allergic to gyms.
Erica Abeel: Worlds of Pain: From Wartorn to Tiny Furniture
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The door opened and an old white-haired, rather plumpish lady greeted me with a smile.
Nevermore
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The results showed that the carbon loss was increased from top to bottom of the blast furnace lumpish section, but didn't exceed 10%.
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This potentially lumpish dish was served in a parfait glass, covered in a veil of horseradish cream.
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If he governs according to what he said during the campaign, it will be a lumpish mess at best and could be disaster for the Democratic Party.
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Its waiting list is described as ‘very, very long’: it seems that the great and the good of Scotland are anxious to join in whatever goes on in that lumpish piece of neo-classical building in Buccleuch Street known as the Archers' Hall.
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What works is the bizarre chemistry between the testosterone-prone Wahlberg and the fuzzy, plumpish Ferrell.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Other Guys
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She is a ghastly, lumpish, sullenly withdrawn girl who leaves great quantities of unflushed paper in the toilet and feeds exclusively on rocklike muffins she constantly bakes from a packaged mix.
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My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, slack, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
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The camera regularly examines his lumpish figure, his potato-like face, his small and porcine eyes.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: A Somewhat Gentle Man
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Mr. Tom'll sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin 'his brow, an' a-lookin 'at the fire of a night.
The Mill on the Floss
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Mrs Glump suddenly appeared, looking extremely -glumpish" as Snubby would say, "Barney!
The Rubadub Mystery
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In the early days, when they had first come to the farm, she had often visited them, watching Kathia, Dessie, with a kind of lumpish interest.
The Stars Are Ours
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The plumpish figures are painted with a 15 th-century-style gloss.
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His breath is taken away by the city's loveliness to the extent that seeing a ‘clumpish’, aesthetically appalling block of flats in the midst of such splendour almost sends him into a paroxysm of bewildered fury.
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She was plumpish with lank hair and a pasty complexion, not very clean, scruffily dressed - very unappetising, I thought.
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So anyone who assumed from her plumpish figure that she was out of shape was in for a rude awakening.
Bodily Harm
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
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She wore a pearl necklace to match those on her dress and even her hair, a tower of blonde streaked curls done up in such a fashion that a few loose strands framed her plumpish face perfectly, was adorned with strands of pearls.
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A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
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You see, " began Larry again, -we didn't know you'd missed the first train so we came down to meet you - and we thought you might be in disguise - so when a plumpish boy got off the train, we thought he was you!
Separate
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We dread turning into a lumpish, sexless gnome in a pastel sweatsuit, existing for the free cheese samples at the supermarket and owning too many mugs with funny sayings on them.
Caroline Hagood: Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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The style shows its best in New York, but even there it was relatively heavy, lumpish, and derivative.
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There is something cartoonish about him - dangling arms, head that looks like its rolling off his neck, lumpish face and deadpan expression.
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It is often assumed that “moral subjectivism” must denote a kind of lumpish relativism according to which whatever sentiments an individual happens to have determine the moral truth for that person; it is often assumed that moral subjectivism would therefore render incoherent the ideas of moral improvement, moral criticism, and moral disagreement.
Moral Anti-Realism
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He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring.
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Heck, there even was a short, plumpish, blonde attendant who sounded Russian.
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Cristobel was a lumpish thirty-odd, and Bernard a bony about-the-same.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Twenty-five years ago, at Vassar, where we met, she was a pretty, plumpish hippie girl.
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For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
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It was roughly man-shaped, but its head was a lumpish affair with no features that he could pick out, elven sight or no.
A TIME OF WAR
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It's often said that Matthew Le Tissier didn't make the most of his sublime talent, though only by the clumpish and irritating.
The Guardian World News
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For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
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An it worrets me as Mr. Tomll sit by himself so glumpish, a-knittin his brow, an a-lookin at the fire of a night.
IV. Brother and Sister. Book VI—The Great Temptation
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Image now to yourself this illustrious Cavalier mounted on his _hackney_; and see if it does not bring before you the Church, bestrid by some lumpish minister of state, who turns and winds it at his pleasure.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
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Show me one picture where Vanessa Hudgens has 'lumpish' hips then!
Undefined
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I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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What most collectors wanted were Guston's graceful abstract paintings from the 1950's, not the lumpish, ragged late works that had caused New York critic Hilton Kramer to call Guston "A Mandarin Pretending to be a Stumblebum.
John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing
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She was plumpish with lank hair and a pasty complexion, not very clean, scruffily dressed - very unappetising, I thought.
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Anne, a plain plumpish sort of woman, never stops eating.
Exit the Actress
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The simplest and most lumpish fungus has a peculiar interest to us, compared with a mere mass of earth, because it is so obviously organic and related to ourselves, however remote.
