Dumpy

This kind of thing was imitated all over Southern California on half-million dollar homes in dumpy neighborhoods with nobody being caught because the losses from fraud were too spread out for anybody to bother burning any shoe leather to check them out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also they are really gouged for rent by other less recent immigrants and they are forced to live in dumpy overcrowded apts: the landlords tell them it is against the law to have so many people in a 2 bedroom apt, BUT if they pay more, it is OK. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

Arthur was about sixteen years old, we have said, when he began to reign; in person (for I see that the artist who is to illustrate this book, and who makes sad work of the likeness, will never be able to take my friend off) he had what his friends would call a dumpy, but his mamma styled a neat little figure. ❋ Unknown (2006)

My Thomas is an angel! not a tall grenadier-like looking fellow, such as I always vowed I would marry: — on the contrary, he is what the world would call dumpy, and I hesitate not to confess, that his eyes have a cast in them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

My Thomas is an angel! not a tall grenadier-like looking fellow, such as I always vowed I would marry: -- on the contrary, he is what the world would call dumpy, and I hesitate not to confess, that his eyes have a cast in them. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

for a blog that is so sympathetic to sexual orientation, you ought to give MA the same consideration and not call her dumpy looking. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

She told me she'd been very lonely and "dumpy", living with her grandmother but knowing no one in Prague. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for explaining a "dumpy" setting like Galilee, why and on what rationale do you opt for historicity? ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

If they want to replace those "dumpy" wheels they can. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I didn't realize that was "Pam" since she looks kind of dumpy on the show, but so HOT in that picture! ❋ Unknown (2007)

She ` s kind of dumpy and trashy and not the Britney we want to see. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Before he was even -- when he was proverbial he would go, "dumpy", meaning a dump truck. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone "dumpy," when his own son, Dudley, had finally achieved what he'd been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2000)

Beer: 6-1/2 cent per litre or about 2 cents per 340 ml can or so-called "dumpy"; Spirits, e.g. whisky, brandy, gin: about 58 cents per 750 ml bottle; Cigarettes: about 8-1/2 cents per 10 cigarettes; ❋ Unknown (1995)

- Beer: 6 1/2 cents a litre, or about 2 cents a 340 ml can or so-called "dumpy"; ❋ Unknown (1995)

The daughter, who was to become so famous, is best described by those two very uncomplimentary English words, "dumpy" and "frumpy." ❋ Lyndon Orr (N/A)