portly
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1. portly - Adjective
2. portly - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.
Bulky; corpulent.
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They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts - and rather portly withal.
Somewhere in the trash he reads Martland has read that heavy men walk with surprising lightness and grace; as a result he trips about like a portly elf hoping to be picked up by a leprechaun.
A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.
men are portly and women are stout
And both men were a study in contrasts, Jardine being tall, lean and trim while Matheson was short and slightly portly.
Assessment by peers Damon Knight described Campbell as a "portly, bristled-haired blond man with a challenging stare."