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Puffiness

noun
1.
An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.  Synonyms: lump, swelling.
2.
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.  Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness.






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"Puffiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... closer attention. She was a woman of sixty, who had evidently been healthy and active in her earlier days, and ought to have been strong and capable still. But there was a redness of the eyes, and a certain pink puffiness of the whole countenance ...
— A Vanished Hand • Sarah Doudney

... merely numerical superiority, and the balance beam quivers undecidedly. The bearded miner, with the rest, looked shiftily toward the man who had done the speaking, the bald-headed one, whose khaki and nail-studded boots were belied by the softness and puffiness of his flesh, the sags and wrinkles beneath his eyes and under his double chins. He had little gray-green orbs ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... beam quivers undecidedly. The bearded miner, with the rest, looked shiftily toward the man who had done the speaking, the bald-headed one, whose khaki and nail-studded boots were belied by the softness and puffiness of his flesh, the sags and wrinkles beneath his eyes and under his double chins. He had little gray-green orbs ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... attentions to his opponent's face and endeavoured to reached the bull's eye, as it were, of the target, though that point was not often attained, and never with spectacular effect. Ere long, however, Macgregor developed a puffiness around his left eye while Willie exhibited a swelling lip. Both soon were pouring out sweat. They fought with frantic enthusiasm ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell

... Europe, in the whole world, from top to bottom of the social scale. First of all, the master of the house, a sort of giant—sunburned, swarthy, with his head between his shoulders—to whom his short nose, lost in the puffiness of the face, his woolly hair massed like an Astrakhan cap over a low, headstrong forehead, his bristling eyebrows with eyes like a wild cat's in ambush, gave the ferocious aspect of a Kalmuk, of a savage on the frontiers of civilization, who lived by war and marauding. Luckily ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet



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