stoutish

White Mason was a quiet, comfortable - looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.

Chennai 2010

This black jacquard asymmetrical tunic dress would not look so hot on my stoutish frame, but it's nice to dream that I would look that lithe if I wore it:

I Found A Frenzy Of Tunics 2009

It being the first tour of the day, the group is small -- two shortish, stoutish men with implausibly dark hair and Eurasian mustaches.

The Fruits of Clear Creek Distillery's Labor 2008

A pleasant – looking, stoutish, middle – aged man who never seemed to consider himself cozily dressed for his own fire – side without his hat and top – boots, but who never wore a coat except at church.

Bleak House 2007

I went in, and found there a stoutish, middle – aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me.

David Copperfield 2007

‘Delightful morning, sir!’ said a stoutish, military – looking gentleman in a blue surtout buttoned up to his chin, and white trousers chained down to the soles of his boots.

Sketches by Boz 2007

At the furthest table, nearest the fire, with his face towards the door at the bottom of the room, sat a stoutish man of about forty, whose short, stiff, black hair curled closely round a broad high forehead, and a face to which something besides water and exercise had communicated a rather inflamed appearance.

Sketches by Boz 2007

At last Mr. Bessel chanced upon a place where a little crowd of such disembodied silent creatures was gathered, and thrusting through them he saw below a brightly-lit room, and four or five quiet gentlemen and a woman, a stoutish woman dressed in black bombazine and sitting awkwardly in a chair with her head thrown back.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

His form, which soon assumed a stoutish appearance, is a little over the ordinary height with the slightest possible bow in the shoulders.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

He got up as she came in and introduced her to a stoutish, white-haired old man in a dinner-jacket.

The Years 2004