Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a dwarf; in a dwarfish manner.
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- adverb In a
dwarfish manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Aww," I say, and I feel suddenly ridiculous, who the hell gets hit by a bus and also, is my ass cheek hanging off this dwarfishly small bed?
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"Aww," I say, and I feel suddenly ridiculous, who the hell gets hit by a bus and also, is my ass cheek hanging off this dwarfishly small bed?
blog: February 2009 2009
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The figure was dwarfishly small and all hair and buck teeth.
Lance Mannion: 2005
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The figure was dwarfishly small and all hair and buck teeth.
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The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely, to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.
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He must be perfectly proportioned: neither immoderately tall nor dwarfishly short; not too fleshy (a most unpromising quality in one of his profession) nor cadaverously thin.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely, to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.
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The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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