Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fully; roundly: without reserve: as, to assert a thing plumply.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb colloq. Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Without reserve; fully; roundly; plainly.

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Examples

  • Gazzara had established a willingness to work outside the commercial mainstream, specialising in anti-social characters including a plumply brutish Al Capone, but his career wavered between quality and dross, film and television and work in the US, Italy and a few other countries, notching up over 80 movies in the years following his initial collaboration with Cassavetes.

    Ben Gazzara obituary 2012

  • Where better to take a break from the joys of shopping bargain sales start next week than the sleek but cozy tea room with its plumply comfortable armchairs?

    Exploring Sushi on the Seine Nidra Poller 2011

  • If she continued to eat like this without those long walks, she would soon resemble the plumply upholstered sofa!

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • The farms looked large and prosperous, even the cows looked plumply outsize and although there were plenty of villages and towns there was a refreshing lack of factories.

    Politics 101 2010

  • There was a heavy wooden table against one wall and a variety of shabby basket chairs, plumply upholstered and well cushioned.

    Politics 101 2010

  • Whoever she was, she was a taking thing, small and plumply curved, her face heart-shaped, her hair a rich golden blond that complemented her creamy skin, which was pinkened by the wind.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

  • Valentina, or Valla, as her father called her, smiled and tossed her silver-blonde head - she was a plumply pert little piece, sure enough, but I spared a glance for Aunt Sara as well.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Bake for one hour, covered loosely with baking parchment, or until the apricots are plumply cooked in the fragrant syrup.

    Waspish 2009

  • Bake for one hour, covered loosely with baking parchment, or until the apricots are plumply cooked in the fragrant syrup.

    Waspish 2009

  • Bake for one hour, covered loosely with baking parchment, or until the apricots are plumply cooked in the fragrant syrup.

    Waspish 2009

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