sweetish
Americanadjective
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The bright, sweetish, clear liqueur is the color of a cat’s eye, and it hits the tongue like a fairy spell, otherworldly and arcane, floral, grassy and herbaceously vibrant.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
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
In April, I tried to persuade you to ignore any prejudices you might have against lambrusco as the sweetish red your mother may have kept in the refrigerator door.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 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
It was sweetish and not at all unpleasant.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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