sweetish
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Our supermarket loaf, which accounts for 80% of all the bread bought in the UK, is sweetish, soft and pappy.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019
His katsu sando at Adana also gets special tonkatsu sauce, made in-house — and yes, that sweetish, familiar flavor is ketchup in the mix, along with sesame, too.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019
It is, as you may have guessed, a cocktail, though it is also the first of two desserts, sweetish and not especially boozy.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
But actually it’s about the bread, which looks sort of like a puffy little canoe and is sweetish, softly absorbent and, perhaps most importantly, has closed ends.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2017
It smelled steamy and damp, like a jungle, and there was another smell, too, sweetish and rotten.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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