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portliness

/pawrt-lee, pohrt-/US // ˈpɔrt li, ˈpoʊrt- //UK // (ˈpɔːtlɪ) //

港式风格,港式,港型,港湾风情

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    port·li·er, port·li·est.

    • : rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
    • : Archaic. stately, dignified, or imposing.

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Examples

  • How many Benny Hill scenes involved the creepy, portly man zooming about perilously near an unfathomably stacked woman?

  • The portly, balding Sabah, a father of two, glances nervously at the television.

  • A moment later I saw my scowling taxi driver darting toward the ticket booth with a companion, a portly man in a checked shirt.

  • From Alec “The Bloviator” Baldwin to “portly pepperpot” Monica Lewinsky, revisit his chief rogue targets.

  • He was a big man, and looked bigger than he was; good-looking too; ruddy, portly, well-dressed and formal.

  • In appearance he was tall and portly, and his bearing, carriage and presence were gentlemanly and refined.

  • A portly woman, whom Isabel knew to be the mother of a brood, was far more anxious to please.

  • Madame Valmonde bent her portly figure over Desiree and kissed her, holding her an instant tenderly in her arms.

  • As he was old and portly, and I young and spare, this disguise had cost me no little thought and labor.