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  • adjective comparative form of tubby: more tubby

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Examples

  • Steely Dan without the iStreamer sounded "tubbier," said Mr. Dorsey.

    NYT > Home Page By ROY FURCHGOTT 2011

  • I would be much tubbier than I am if he weren't the food police.

    Brad Balfour: Exclusive: A Tony Nominee Quartet Reflect on the Coming Night 2010

  • The media have in recent months made a lot of the fact that we're a tubby and sedentary nation -- well, more truthfully, obese -- and that we have been getting tubbier and more sedentary by the decade.

    Peter Clothier: Family Fun and Fitness 2009

  • As for all those new colour picture bylines throughout the paper; they may well have dragged some hacks into the modern age from the safety of flattering black and white, but unfortunatley it has revealed many no names to be tubbier and, ahem, a little ruddier in the face.

    Archive 2008-06-01 ROB McGIBBON 2008

  • As for all those new colour picture bylines throughout the paper; they may well have dragged some hacks into the modern age from the safety of flattering black and white, but unfortunatley it has revealed many no names to be tubbier and, ahem, a little ruddier in the face.

    Turn back Times, too ROB McGIBBON 2008

  • He was tubbier than he should have been, no braver than he had to be, and heartily disapproved of anything resembling work, especially work he'd have to do.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Slick and smear it over and leave it sounding sicklier and tubbier and more generally disgusting than ever.

    Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

  • The other was a smaller and tubbier man, pleasant to look upon, a man evidently who lived for and by good eating and drinking.

    Patsy 1887

  • The singers Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Hudson are showing off newly slender bodies to entice tubbier folks to follow their example.

    NYT > Home Page By ELIZABETH OLSON 2011

  • The singers Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Hudson are showing off newly slender bodies to entice tubbier folks to follow their example.

    NYT > Home Page By ELIZABETH OLSON 2011

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