Synonym: chubby, dignified, fat, grand, heavyset, imposing, majestic, noble, obese, plump, pudgy, stately, stocky, stout. Similar words: shortly, importantly, partly, curtly, smartly, chortle, short-lived, effortlessly. Meaning: ['pɔrtlɪ /'pɔːt-] 
adj. euphemisms for `fat'.
adj. euphemisms for `fat'. 
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31 It reads like an old Geographic, rich in the delightful minutiae of bungalows and centipedes, tinned goods, portly lamas, silence and wonder.
32 The forest service, which looks after areas where tigers roam, is a portly shadow of its 1970s self, when Indira Gandhi launched her celebrated feline rescue plan, Project Tiger.
33 The other night as I walker from the garage , a portly man wearing a stocking cap emerged from a bush and aimed a pistolbetween my eyes.
34 For a portly man like him, Uncle Tom still has quick reflex.
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35 And with a cry of delight he ran towards the slumbering Portly.
36 Habitually clad in a boiler suit tailored to highlight his portly frame, Kim Jong Il seems an unlikely style icon.
37 His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund , his figure almost portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.
38 He wore a belted raincoat that accentuated his portly middle.
39 How did he look, Sir? Was he portly, bold, outspoken, and hearty?
40 After them came a portly lady of about forty - five, light - haired, sharp - eyed, and evidently good - natured.
41 Portly and stout are sometimes used as polite terms to describe fatness.
42 Mr. Seegrave was tall and portly , and military in his manners.
43 Arctic people are generally short, round, portly and, therefore, warm.
44 The portly bank manager, Su Dapeng, offers to take us hunting for wildfowl and to pose for a portrait.