What is "rotund"

Usage examples of "rotund".

A rotund little man immediately sidled up to Brett, wiping his hands on a none too clean apron.

The servant stood motionless, a rotund, mouthy statue with an obstinate stare, only his trembling moustache a sign of his displeasure.

Longarm thought that the rotund and genial Indian was probably in his mid-forties, but George was extremely active and reputed to be one of the finest mustangers in the state of Nevada.

The bench was just to the left, giving the public a close and unexpurgated view of the law, personified this morning at one minute past ten thirty by a rotund stipendiary magistrate with a dyspeptic frown.

Having come to an abrupt halt and whilst contemplating roast pheasant for Saturday supp era rotund, red-cheeked character had climbed over the dry stone wall, shotgun in hand.

His legs ached, and his knees still wobbled from the terrifying ride he and his shipmates had endured astride the slippery unsinged portions of the uncomfortably rotund serpent.

She recognised Generalissimo Hernandez, but at close quarters this rotund little man in his braided, bemedalled uniform looked even less like a dictator than he had in the photograph Major Fairhaven had shown her.

The slender, staid Thorwalians had nothing in common with the rotund, nervous Dakotan race.

Buttermilk was not a rotund, happy, doughlike creature, as his name might suggest.

He was a small, rotund man perhaps sixty years of age, with heavy dewlaps and large, moist eyes.

Near a corner, close to a row of filing cabinets, sat a rotund, baldish man who was checking over lists.

He removed his silken cape, meaning to put on the bandoleer and go to the mirror to see how it fit, as he always did after completing another dart, but a sharp rap of his door gave him just enough time to place the leather belt behind him before Headmaster Avery Schell, a rotund and red-faced man, burst in.

He started to turn, but instead sidestepped around the rotund archaeologist, and pulled Panos to his feet.

Andrea flat in the snow now and with the icy rims of the binoculars clamped hard against his eyes, had no difficulty at all in making an immediate identification: Sergeant Baer, moon-faced, rotund and about seventy and overweight for his unimpressive height, had unmistakable physical presence which only the mentally incapacitated could easily forget.

Such folk often carried poisons, possibly ones he himself had supplied, and he wanted to be well away from this one before, Glarasteer Rhauligan ducked under Bezrar's wild slash, slammed a balled fist into the fat merchant's rotund chest, above the belly and below the heart, forcing Bezrar into the wild battlecry of "Eeep!