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  • Tulisa (dollish, glossy, watchful) walks gingerly in vertiginous heels.

    N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!' 2010

  • Yesterday, I started to show you things from that old box of dollish things I dragged out of the cabinet.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • Yesterday, I started to show you things from that old box of dollish things I dragged out of the cabinet.

    Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men... Ann Althouse 2006

  • Yesterday, I started to show you things from that old box of dollish things I dragged out of the cabinet.

    Ancient doll. Ann Althouse 2006

  • I find them all pleasant to look upon; their dollish air pleases me now, and I fancy I have discovered what it is that gives it to them: it is not only their round, inexpressive faces with eyebrows far removed from the eyelids, but the excessive amplitude of their dress.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • For with all that dollish look, perhaps because of it, it was possible, so Killigrew thought, to imagine her being very bad with the help of that protective mask.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • But across this dollish mask, like a gay melody dancing over an unchanging fundamental bass, passed Anne's other inheritance -- quick laughter, light ironic amusement, and the changing expressions of many moods.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • But across this dollish mask, like a gay melody dancing over an unchanging fundamental bass, passed Anne's other inheritance -- quick laughter, light ironic amusement, and the changing expressions of many moods.

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • It was a very happy hostess who dispensed hospitality that evening to a glassy-eyed stiff-kneed circle; and many s dollish gaucherie, that would have been severely checked on ordinary occasions, was as much overlooked as if it had been a birthday.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • At four years old the little thing undoubtedly had a dollish resemblance to her mother.

    Set in Silver 1901

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