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- adjective Somewhat
loud
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can pretty well guarantee that there will be a loud bit at some point, and then there is a loud bit, you can say things to your companion in a loudish conversational voice.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway mrissa 2009
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At this point, Emery let out a loudish moan—about as loud as Allegra would make on discovering her toast was burned—and somehow I managed to yank her jeans open, to reveal a surprisingly substantial, round bump.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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At this point, Emery let out a loudish moan—about as loud as Allegra would make on discovering her toast was burned—and somehow I managed to yank her jeans open, to reveal a surprisingly substantial, round bump.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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At this point, Emery let out a loudish moan—about as loud as Allegra would make on discovering her toast was burned—and somehow I managed to yank her jeans open, to reveal a surprisingly substantial, round bump.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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His tremendous roar does not shake the jungle: it is a hollow apish cry, a loudish huhh! huhh! huhh! explosive like the puff of a steam-engine, which, in rage becomes a sharp and snappish bark — any hunter can imitate it.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The men then began to talk together in a loudish whisper.
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson
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They gazed curiously about, remarking in loudish whispers on what they saw.
Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore
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"Yes, sir," replied the butler, "they were loudish in a manner o 'speaking, else I shouldn't have heard them!"
The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914
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Then the voice sank to the hoarse, warning whisper of impatience -- loudish in anxiety, yet throaty from fear of being heard.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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His tremendous roar does not shake the jungle: it is a hollow apish cry, a loudish huhh! huhh! huhh! explosive like the puff of a steam-engine, which, in rage becomes a sharp and snappish bark -- any hunter can imitate it.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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