Lumpishness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lumpishness is a noun meaning The property of being lumpish.
Meaning
The property of being lumpish.
Example Sentences
If marked beauty be absent from the French face, how much more is marked dulness, marked brutality, the lumpishness of the clumsily made and the unfinished! As a mere piece of workmanship, of finish, the French provincial face—the peasant’s face, even—often has the same kind of interest as a work of art.
1753, William Duncan, The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English, Glasgow University Press, 1815, Volume II, Of the Civil War, Book I, LII, p. 146, Our men […] were incommoded too by the weight and lumpishness of their vessels, which being built in haste, of unseasoned timber, were not so ready at tacking about.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lumpiness, clunkiness, plumpishness, limpness, lumberingness, slugginess.
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