Portly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORTLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• corpulent, stout
• (especially of a man) rather fat
• of a stately or dignified appearance and manner
• Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.
• Bulky; corpulent.
• euphemisms for `fat\'
• rather fat
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• rather heavy or fat

Words related to PORTLY

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How to use PORTLY in a sentence

• Hobson Newcome, Esquire, was more portly than his elder brother, and allowed his red whiskers to grow on his cheeks and under his chin.
• Even the fat and portly Major, notwithstanding his rank, felt the strength of our arms, and, almost bereft of breath between each blow, commanded us to desist.
• Brigitta was also of a goodly age, but younger than Carlotta, fat and portly, and round as a barrel.
• If it had not been that Aminadab married the portly Janet, we might have heard no more of the fortunes of this man.
• Johnson was at that time but in his fortieth year, and much less portly than afterwards.
• First a carriage containing the Prophet, portly, strong-faced, easy of manner, as became a giant who felt kindly in his might.
• Seated in the chair, with his back toward us, was a portly Chinaman who wore a yellow, silken robe.
• Furthermore, Zeuxis gave more content to the limbs and painted them fuller and more portly.
• He was a portly individual of middle age, and was still eminently handsome.
• Wedmore found a partner in the coachman, who was a portly and solemn person, with no talents in the way of dancing or of conversation.
• I could imagine no other explanation of the facts, with the portly, purple-faced old country gentleman flung there strangled on the floor like a bundle of wood.
• As he entered the shop, a tall portly personage advanced to meet him, whom he at once recognised as the present proprietor.
• He occasionally made out the portly figure of Watusk in his frock coat, but received no word from him.
• My remembrance of Father Mathew was that of a man of portly figure, rather under than above the middle height, with a handsome, pleasant face.
• Philip Demarest was a large, portly man, with a ruddy, red face, blue-veined and kindly.
• Alive he would have laughed at the idea of carrying the portly Jusuke.
• The governor was the only portly individual we saw.
• A portly and handsome man, florid and genial, with profuse fair hair, mustache and side-whiskers.
• I was in dismay and the people began to laugh, especially a portly individual sitting directly in front of the orchestra.
• The portly serving-man had advanced, and, taking his little mistress in his arms, as he would a child, had planted her on the steps.
• He was a handsome man of fifty, with long white hair, which matched beautifully with his yet ruddy cheeks, and a figure portly and full of strength.
• Several of his neighbors who passed, seeing a dark and portly figure there, took it for the lord of the mansion, and gave it respectful salutation.
• Thus it happens that I love a portly book, in a sober coat of calf, but hate a thin, smart volume, in a gaudy binding.
• Then the door of a lofty but narrow cabinet, lighted with many candles, was opened, and I saw at the farther end a portly gentleman seated in an arm-chair.
• Mistress was a large, portly woman, good-looking, and pretty well liked by her slaves.
• Widow Kirstine was a portly, somewhat worn perhaps, but otherwise strong-looking, old woman, with a good broad face, and thin grey hair drawn down behind her ears.
• As it was, the unwelcome visitor jumped aside, whilst the portly farmer tripped himself up by his own impetuosity, and fell upon the threshold.

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