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/ˈslʌmpi/
Adjective
Characteristic of an economic slump.
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Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.
Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
Usage- Informal
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Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.
Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.
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Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.
Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
Usage- UK usage
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So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]
[…] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]
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[…] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest[…]
The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.