pudginess
podginess BrE

Just getting rid of the pudginess is a good start.

The crow's feet around his eyes were caused by pudginess, not happiness.

And not just for the usual reasons everyone has heard before that pudginess increases your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.

Mother Angelica puts pudginess where it belongs: next to godliness.

It seemed a strange contrast to Rusa'h's pudginess.

She had short brown hair and concealed her pudginess beneath her baggy grunge clothes.

His face had a gentle pudginess that belied his easily aroused temper.

The clinging silks she wore revealed a waistless pudginess.

Paddy's pudginess makes her something of a laughing stock among her older, jaded male colleagues.

The round rimless eyeglasses, and the pudginess of face he had developed since reaching prosperity, lent a serious demeanor to his features.

When we see him at home on his downtime, he's folded into a dingy bathtub, his pink pudginess visible through an open door.

His expensively tailored uniform couldn't conceal his pudginess, and self-indulgence had left its marks on his face.

His lips are fleshy, he tends toward pudginess, and as for his beard, it is so scraggly that it makes him look unwashed.

But deceptive muscles lurked beneath Mr. Claudius's pudginess.

Crone does a session with the weight machine every morning and is beginning to look fit, having lost that stodgy pudginess with which he started the trial.

At 43, Ostermeier still has something of the enfant terrible about him, even if the boyish pudginess of his face is less obvious than it once was.

At 54 he even looks different: none of the overindulgent pudginess, wan complexion or badly cut suits one usually encounters among the bureaucrats of Central Europe.

Despite his pudginess, Pugsley is, like his father, exceptionally agile, able to out-climb a gorilla and hang from branches by his teeth.

Its pudginess makes it fit the hand easily, said its designer, Jack Hokanson, an industrial designer who started his company, Hoke 2, in 1988.

Porter had lost all his previous pudginess over the past few months, gaining in its place a muscle tone well-suited to his safari jacket, jhodpurs and pith helmet.

The image of the child on the screen now looked the way it should, although the baby-fat pudginess made it an unlikely candidate for what he would make it do next.

Dark hair, bushy eyebrows, wide nose, thick lips -hollowed cheeks, no pudginess, thinner, harder - and this one, too, was captioned Carlos, the most recent photograph of Carlos.

He went down in a tangle of arms, legs, petticoats, and assorted other garments that he had wadded up and tied around his torso to create the illusion of pudginess.

Also, his stomach began to spread, until it became the yielding, squashy belly in which I would so often be smothered and which none of us, consciously at any rate, compared to the pudginess of Nadir Khan.

Henriette Liberge, known as "Boule" (literally "Ball," a reference to her slight pudginess) was romantically involved with Simenon for the next several decades and would remain a close friend of the family, really part of it.