Etymologies
- waif + -like (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the doorway, a giant male fairy with butterfly wings is lighting the cigarette of a waiflike girl dressed in black.”
“A waiflike college student, she was volunteering at a gallery of Communist propaganda posters located in the bowels of a Shanghai apartment complex.”
“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.”
“Emma, a skinny, waiflike girl, perhaps ten, with lank ash-blond hair and smudges like bruises under her pale blue eyes.”
“Chris slipped through the small window, his waiflike size affording him easy access.”
“The Sigur R ó s vocalist unleashes his waiflike falsetto over daring, darting percussion, chiming synths, toy pianos, xylophones and flutes.”
“Her cropped, highlighted blond locks swept rakishly over her pore-less forehead, Mulligan, at 25, presents a more assured, less waiflike persona than last year, when her astonishing star turn in the British coming-of-age drama "An Education" earned her the designation of film-festival It Girl.”
The Washington Post: After her breakout year, Carey Mulligan still garnering praise for acting
“I prefer the long, waiflike look of models who are most likely just as sick as I am.”
“They want it back in all its lurid detail: the accusing, cuckolded Theodore Tilton raging for justice; his waiflike wife,”
“Kiera had been far thinner, of course, almost waiflike.”
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