Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stocky manner; short and stout: as, a stockily built person.
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- adverb In a
stocky manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb so as to be stocky
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Examples
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One of the witnesses said the man who fled the woods wore his hair in cornrows and was stockily built.
D.C. intern killed after refusing to give suspect a ride, police say 2010
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Philby was only a little over five feet tall and stockily built with short plump arms and legs as pale and shapeless as peeled tree trunks.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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He was 24 at the time, maybe 5-10 and 170, stockily built.
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Valter was stockily built, with receding gray hair and a rough-cut, well-put-together face that was a mixture of Mike Ditka and Don Shula.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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Valter was stockily built, with receding gray hair and a rough-cut, well-put-together face that was a mixture of Mike Ditka and Don Shula.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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Valter was stockily built, with receding gray hair and a rough-cut, well-put-together face that was a mixture of Mike Ditka and Don Shula.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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He was 24 at the time, maybe 5-10 and 170, stockily built.
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Valter was stockily built, with receding gray hair and a rough-cut, well-put-together face that was a mixture of Mike Ditka and Don Shula.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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There was a short, stockily built Italian man who seemed to be in charge.
Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh Belinda 2007
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There was a short, stockily built Italian man who seemed to be in charge.
Archive 2007-09-01 Belinda 2007
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