witchlike

• “Her forefinger indicated the uglier, more witchlike of the two suffragists, the skinny one with a big nose and dead black hair and ruffles on her coat that looked like leaves of cabbage.”

  Simon & Schuster: DIAMOND RUBY

• “Dahl and his young accomplices are a “gang of desperadoes,” locked in mortal combat with the hideous villain of the piece, Mrs. Pratchett, a comic distillation of the two witchlike sisters who, it seems, ran the shop in real life.16 She is “a small, skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip and a mouth as sour as a green gooseberry.””

  Simon & Schuster: Storyteller

• “The murky blue-black fluid inside did look a little witchlike.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Opposite of Me

• “Her witchlike face screwed into a tiny wrinkled prune.”

  Simon & Schuster: My Sweet Audrina

• “Not pretty faces and breasts like Millie's; their visages were witchlike and their dugs grotesque.”

  Fictionaut: Falcon Street

• “Shirley Phelps-Roper, Fred's daughter, appears almost deformed by hatred and resentment, with witchlike "Bride of Frankenstein" hair and the raging expression of a vulture about to pounce on a dead cow.”

  Jim David: Fred Phelps, Welcome To The Mainstream

• “When Boston university journalism student Melissa Nawrocki examined campaign coverage, she found that the media accused Clinton of being insane, murderous, witchlike, depressed, and egomaniacal:”

  Caryl Rivers: Ignoble Hillary

• “One scary image shows witchlike women fighting as they fly through the air; another, a man stitched inside a dead horse; and another, a repenting man with his mouth open as if to scream.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Old Masters Can Still Surprise

• “Her dabbling in fortune-telling and her ability to locate water in the most arid of deserts make her seem magical, almost witchlike.”

  Newsweek: The Mother of Chile

• “She has witchlike black hair and flea bites on her legs.”

  Simon & Schuster: If I Am Missing or Dead

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