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  • s  euphemisms for `fat'
    men are portly and women are stout

  • Resembling a Mephistophelean Santa Clans with his portly form, thick black eyebrows, fluffy white beard and twinkling eyes, Gulbenkian spent his life in a relentless chase after .
  • No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper .
  • Then the portly, fun-loving Premier stepped briskly to the waiting Senate to read it.
News & Articles

  • Yasiel Puig intrigue in L.A.
    It has been more than three decades since Fernandomania swept through the baseball world, its epicenter here in Southern California. The portly lefty from Mexico with his eyes-to-the heavens delivery, mowing down batter after batter, team after team.
    June 13, 2013 - The Desert Sun
  • IMPRESSIONS: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Impressions
    Andrew gets down and dirty with the portly plumber pair. Let's a go! The E3 demo for Mario & Luigi Dream Team features three scenarios: exploring the real world, the dream world and a boss battle example. I got a chance to try out the real world scenario, which features some lush overworld plains, not unlike the opening areas seen in previous titles. The biggest and most obvious addition to the ...
    June 11, 2013 - Nintendo World Report
Quotes

  • Neil Patrick Harris in CBS News
    They initially wanted a John Belushi, Jack Black - a big, portly cigar-smoking kind of guy,Harris said. "And I had just done this movie where I play this extraordinarily extreme version of myself, and the creators had seen it and thought...
  • Lawrence Turman in New York Times
    John Wayne always looked a bit portly,noted Lawrence Turman, a veteran film producer who is chairman of the Peter Stark producing program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.
  • Randy Cohen in Atlantic Online
    To do so is to offer more pie to a portly fellow while the gaunt and hungry press their faces to the window,Randy Cohen writes.

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