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Fleshiness   Listen
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Fleshiness  n.  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fleshiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... individual whose jokes had been so fatal to him. Georges, almost bald, retained only three or four tufts of hair above his ears; but these were elaborately frizzed out to conceal, as best they could, the nakedness of the skull. A fleshiness ill-placed, in other words, a pear-shaped stomach, altered the once elegant proportions of the ex-young man. Now almost ignoble in appearance and bearing, Georges exhibited the traces of disasters in love and a life of debauchery in his blotched skin and bloated, vinous features. The eyes had lost ...
— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac

... handbag and staring with his blue eyes at the restless moving mobs of people, walked for the first time through its streets. In his very frame there was the possibility of something, a blow, a shock, a thrust out of the lean soul of strength into the jelly-like fleshiness of weakness. ...
— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson

... exceed the true artists in number; and the hint on retouching should not be lost sight of, either, at a period when the tendency is to stereotype every one in marble-like texture, or rather lack of texture, as if the face were devoid of all fleshiness and as hard and rigid as cast-iron. It might be wise to weigh this point carefully, and act upon it, before the enlightened public have raised a cry against the pernicious practice and made photographers ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 • Various



Words linked to "Fleshiness" :   plumpness, fatness, obesity, avoirdupois, embonpoint, fleshy, adiposis, blubber, exogenous obesity, roundness, overweight, fat, corpulence, corpulency, stoutness



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