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- adjective Somewhat
slight
Etymologies
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Examples
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Stoick, the Viking father whose body and expectations loom over the slightish Hiccup.
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She is called Mrs. Graham, and she is in mourning — not widow’s weeds, but slightish mourning — and she is quite young, they say, — not above five or six and twenty, — but so reserved!
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