curvy

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"She was kind of chubby and big and curvy, and she thought she was the sexiest thing on the planet," says Simmons.

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  • The trunk was not straight but curvy, and the branches made it look like a bonsai—artistic, with oversized leaves. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
  • The road's pretty curvy, and we just got a call from Taos that it's really snowing hard up there How about one of the pueblos then She shook her head. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • She used the bouba / kiki effect, a psychology test in which subjects overwhelmingly call a curvy shape “bouba†and a jagged shape “kiki†when asked to match these words with their corresponding shapes. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
  • I of course knew that I wasn't fat per se, just a tad over weight - curvy might be a better word. —  authorblog
  • Roberts looks great in her return to leading-lady status after a few years off - strong, curvy, formidable - and Owen drops the steamy glower he's adopted of late and almost seems to have a twinkle in his eye this time around.
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leggy ·  shapely ·  busty ·  thirtyish ·  willowy ·  curvaceous ·  rail-thin ·  perky ·  well-endowed ·  well-muscled ·  slinky ·  black-gowned
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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