Kennedy describes her with unflinching accuracy as 'very short, dumpy and pleasant-looking rather than attractive' (32).
Every carcase is about the same weight and the same size; it is not a case of one carcase being long and narrow and another short and dumpy.
A variation on the dumpy and one that was often used by surveyors, where greater accuracy and error checking was required, is a tilting level.
Dumpy levelling requires shorter and therefore more numerous sights, but this fault is compensated by the practice of making foresights and backsights equal.
They fight about his roving eye, her cooking, his earning power, her excessive shopping, and the fact that both are middle-aged and dumpy-looking.
A dumpy and fussy woman who holds opinions to extent beyond reasonable limit, but holds positive interests at heart.
A squat, square tower with obelisks and flying buttresses carrying a dumpy spire.
Its shape was dumpy and squat more like a concertina than an accordion.
