Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
dwarf or some aspect of one;small ,diminutive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The big man took the orders and worked the grill; his dwarflike forearms strained to reach the onions and fried eggs on the back hot plate.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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The big man took the orders and worked the grill; his dwarflike forearms strained to reach the onions and fried eggs on the back hot plate.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Powerful mythic stuff, and that's our Sarah a-settin' on the wagon with that handsome dwarflike Michael Landon.
Attacked by Drudge and Malkin, Gwen Ifill breaks an ankle. Ann Althouse 2008
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Aeriel begins a journey at the behest of the wraiths and a dwarflike creature who befriends her, and her own desire to save Irrylath to decipher a riddle about the vampyres destruction.
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The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true.
Our medieval ancestors were of similar height and suffered similar ailments as ours 2007
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Aeriel begins a journey at the behest of the wraiths and a dwarflike creature who befriends her, and her own desire to save Irrylath to decipher a riddle about the vampyres destruction.
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'The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true,' he said.
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The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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'The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true,' he said.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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In their last years, the Greenland Vikings were severely crippled, dwarflike, twisted, and diseased Hermann, 1954.
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