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  • adjective Resembling a mole.

Etymologies

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mole +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Prof. NORMAN: No, they were inside the tunnel, so, therefore, they rarely saw night and day, so they had an underground molelike existence.

    We Band of Angels:; The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 1999

  • It was as "good as a play," the stenographers said, to see the President dart a glance over his spectacle-rims at some demure counselor whose molelike machinations were more than suspected, and with mock solemnity declaim:

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • -- "No," replied the man, "but she is still at Versailles; she is working underground, molelike; but we shall know how to dig her out."

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Another hour, and he had burrowed molelike, to the side of the other man, who still was conscious.

    The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

  • It was as “good as a play,” the stenographers said, to see the President dart a glance over his spectacle-rims at some demure counselor whose molelike machinations were more than suspected, and with mock solemnity declaim:

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • -- "No," replied the man, "but she is still at Versailles; she is working underground, molelike; but we shall know how to dig her out."

    Marie Antoinette — Complete 1787

  • -- "No," replied the man, "but she is still at Versailles; she is working underground, molelike; but we shall know how to dig her out."

    Marie Antoinette — Volume 05 1787

  • Bleszinski's brand of mild outrageousness-the "Cliffycam" on his blog page, which, some years ago, allowed visitors to observe him online while he worked; the photographs of him on his MySpace page alongside the splatter-film director Eli Roth and the porn stars Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy-qualifies him as exceptional in an industry that is, as he says, widely assumed to be a preserve inhabited by pale, withdrawn, molelike creatures.

    the-inbetween.com 2008

  • Bleszinski's brand of mild outrageousness-the "Cliffycam" on his blog page, which, some years ago, allowed visitors to observe him online while he worked; the photographs of him on his MySpace page alongside the splatter-film director Eli Roth and the porn stars Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy-qualifies him as exceptional in an industry that is, as he says, widely assumed to be a preserve inhabited by pale, withdrawn, molelike creatures.

    the-inbetween.com 2008

  • It wasn’t the hard leather-and-steel regalia but the subterranean contortion of their faces, as though they had unearthed themselves, waiting in the sand for the hour when they could converge here, climbing molelike from underground between storms.

    Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985

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