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• n  an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
• n  lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• Kennedy's face sometimes looks flushed and mottled, with the classic alcoholic signs of burst capillaries, puffiness and gin-roses of the drunk.
• At their kindest, they share beauty secrets: hemorrhoid cream, one girl magnanimously informs another, reduces puffiness around the eyes.
• By the time she arrives, the redness and puffiness will be gone.

• swelling
• lump
• ostentation
• ostentatiousness
• pomposity
• pompousness
• pretentiousness
• splashiness
• inflation

News & Articles

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• Upper-Arm-Lift: The Alternative to Saggy Arms
  A couple of years ago Barbara Davis had inner arm-lift surgery and she’s in good company. Since the year 2000 the procedure is up more than 4,000% “Women are vain,” Barbara said. “You get this little puffiness of skin under …
  July 11, 2013 - Nightcap TV

Quotes

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• Kobe Bryant in International Herald Tribune
  I've got a little bit of puffiness in the back of the knee. It's just from the trauma of landing the way I landed,Bryant said about an hour before his teammates faced Charlotte again. "So we'll just knock that out and make sure the...
• Lou Piniella in MLB.com
  The trainer told me [Theriot] still has a little puffiness in there,Piniella said. "We'll have him back in the lineup tomorrow."