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What (who) is lumpish - definition


lumpish      
¦ adjective
1. roughly or clumsily formed.
2. stupid and lethargic.
Derivatives
lumpishly adverb
lumpishness noun
lumpish      
a.
1.
Heavy, gross, bulky.
2.
Dull, heavy, stupid, gross, inactive.
Lumpish      
·adj Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.
Examples of use of lumpish
1. Germaine Greer says that older women should allow themselves to fancy boys, but I find boys lumpish and pungent and have the strongest urge to look the other way, really, until they get themselves sorted out.
2. But although some of these tangled, clotted masses of light and dark, with their lumpish humans and wretched, dying animals, are among the best prints he ever made, they didn‘t sell.
3. We may no longer blush at having to ask publicly for the lavatory but we do, apparently, feel something akin to despair when we ponder the way in which the bundle of skin, muscle and bone we drag around all day has become a lumpish, deskilled embarrassment.