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[ UK /kˈɔːpjʊlənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively fat
    a weighty man

How To Use corpulent In A Sentence

  • In fact, the first corpulent words were "porky" in the 1860's; "jumbo" in the 1880's; and "butterball" in the 1890s. Janice Taylor: Fat In America: "Hey, FATSO!"
  • But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow. The Book of Snobs
  • He is a short, somewhat corpulent, man.
  • Is he the large, dark-haired, somewhat corpulent gentleman who favors brown coats? THE PROMISE IN A KISS
  • The audience thought the corpulent soprano they'd cast was hilarious as Violetta. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
  • At this scale, a single ethanol molecule is roughly the size of a corpulent Labrador retriever.
  • Edward was corpulent, had heavy unshaven jowls and dragged one foot because his shoe had no lace. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
  • He was corpulent, hard-partying, and coarse—a dealer who moved casually through the post-Soviet underworld and all of its crudities, assessing weapons stocks and making useful friends. The Gun
  • Susan wrote of the dog: Otis the rather corpulent bassett hound. A Perfect Saturday
  • He was not obsessed with corpulent women; he had simply never noticed that she was fat. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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