liquorish
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- liquorishly adverb
- liquorishness noun
Example Sentences
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The noxious sweetness of many liquorish pumpkin offerings proves them to be agents of regression.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2014
In flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act?
From Time Magazine Archive
"Parsifal," he declared, with true Celtic love of exaggeration, "to be the oiliest flattery ever poured down the open throat of a liquorish humanity."
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
But there were smell and features in the glare—the odour was that of the tramp's skin, the features—a long thin nose, pressed lips, small eyes, a look of dull liquorish cruelty.
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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