Modifies a noun

• man: Carl stared hatefully at each newcomer in turn, two corpulent men in suits taking most of the venom.

• backside: This is no time to be sitting on your corpulent backside.

• form: I spotted the corpulent form of William Major, comfortably filling his favorite chair and sipping a brandy.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Fortune, in his person, was of small stature, and rather corpulent.

• somewhat: Mrs. George Donner was in good health, was somewhat corpulent, and certainly able to travel.

• very: Ravenscroft was a very corpulent man, a circumstance which made the neatness of his performance the more remarkable.

• not: I am not corpulent, nor am I robust in any way.