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Examples
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They also look a lot like her: delicately featured, wispish, androgynous.
Painting Faces 2009
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Elizabeth Peyton's celebrity subjects look as wispish and yearning as her portraits of friends and lovers.
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He was a small, wispish man sixty-six years old, accompanied by so much luggage that it required two porters to lift it off the train and into a special wagon.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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A will-o'-the-wispish set of tortured facts, emotions, and flimsy philosophies, the arguments are super-charged with pure poppycock.
Growing Pains 1952
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And similarly of his friend, Mrs. Taylor, "She was a will-o'-the - wispish iridescence of a creature; meaning nothing bad either"; and again of Mill himself, "His talk is sawdustish, like ale when there is no wine to be had."
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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Aquaman is talented but also wispish, fragile and ethereal.
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