corpulent

• “Let try the term corpulent; and no they shouldn't have to they are people with emotions, let not treat them any differently than we would like to be treated ourselves.”

  WordPress.com News

• “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')

• “As early as 1922 this picaresque pair was so well known that headlines in the Times could refer to the corpulent Einstein and the lumbering Smith solely by their nicknames “izzy and Moe raid thespian retreat”; “Izzy and Moe Pour Whisky Into sewer”; “sees Izzy and Moe, Bartender Faints”.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “All these ladies were remarkably corpulent, which is considered here as the highest mark of beauty.”

  Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7

• “And while now we say "overweight" instead of "corpulent" -- and obesity has become epidemic -”

  Kansas City Star: Front Page

• “Rush Limbaugh has in recent days been referred to as a corpulent drug addict who is the real leader of the GOP, and even Bam himself has been uncharacteristically where Limbaugh is concerned.”

  MaxRedline

• “Conservatives are properly referred to as "corpulent".”

  Is Kevin Drum a Clinton sycophant?

• “The couple had lost considerable property during the American Revolution, and her husband's estate being thus diminished by the time of his death, Mrs. Tree turned to running an inn by the 1790s to maintain her lifestyle. 10 Eighteenth-century diarist Aaron Thomas described his encounter with the "corpulent" and convivial Mrs. Tree at her establishment, the London Inn, where he found her to be "in a very comfortable situation, … [with] a large and roomy House and Genteel Furniture.”

  Gutenber-e Help Page

• “As for Pedro´s comment that these pájaros are, as he, migrating down here to escape the frozen tundra during the winter, it is nice to see some corpulent and beautiful white birds coming down here from Alberta to add spice to the normal two bit scruffy unshaven skinny rednecks we usually receive from the tundra in these part in the winter.”

  Crystal Air, Sparkling Water, Imposing mountains, Eucalyptus Groves

• “Mr. Lindsay-Hogg was fat as a boy, but he was a good deal more successful in his struggle with weight than the corpulent Welles, a "leviathan plus," as Kenneth Tynan once put it.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Director Casts About for Clues

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