Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
waif ; apparentlyhomeless ,starving , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the doorway, a giant male fairy with butterfly wings is lighting the cigarette of a waiflike girl dressed in black.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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In the doorway, a giant male fairy with butterfly wings is lighting the cigarette of a waiflike girl dressed in black.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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So I begin buying way-too-small shirts and pants for myself that I squeeze into in order to look the part of the waiflike English rock star.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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So I begin buying way-too-small shirts and pants for myself that I squeeze into in order to look the part of the waiflike English rock star.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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Emma, a skinny, waiflike girl, perhaps ten, with lank ash-blond hair and smudges like bruises under her pale blue eyes.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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Chris slipped through the small window, his waiflike size affording him easy access.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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A waiflike college student, she was volunteering at a gallery of Communist propaganda posters located in the bowels of a Shanghai apartment complex.
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Emma, a skinny, waiflike girl, perhaps ten, with lank ash-blond hair and smudges like bruises under her pale blue eyes.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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A waiflike college student, she was volunteering at a gallery of Communist propaganda posters located in the bowels of a Shanghai apartment complex.
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Chris slipped through the small window, his waiflike size affording him easy access.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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