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Portly meaning
Somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight. | Having a dignified bearing; handsome, imposing.
Example sentences (11)
And with food this delicious, you can equally become as portly.
As hands went up, MVP turned them down one by one, including a portly patron whom MVP expressed concerns for, saying he might have a heart attack because his cholesterol was too high.
DeSimone, a portly man with white hair, sat at the head of the table.
None of these three revered news outlets bothered to mention the fact that there was a bit more to Hassan Nasrallah than a portly, lovable lug who led a “resistance” struggle.
And yet, here he was, a portly 51-year-old, huffing and puffing through eight two-minute rounds for a guaranteed $1 million purse that was unlikely to make the slightest dent in his massive debts.
So with that determination at hand, I embark on this quest to drop some pounds — to get un-portly.
In an effort to learn more about the Dark Order, there was a vignette of a portly fellow on a subway watching this video play.
It all started two years ago when new neighbours moved in across the road and brought along their piggy – not potbellied, not miniature, but a full-on portly pig which patrols the fence, eyeballing our hairy hounds.
And both men were a study in contrasts, Jardine being tall, lean and trim while Matheson was short and slightly portly.
Elsewhere, Willy Wheeler (portly, in his sixties) cartwheels for a photographer.
Headmaster (Headward Headington-Hail, Chocilus Bicius) The pompous, portly school headmaster.