Example Sentences

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Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it was brickish of him, all the same.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

The sun looked in on him pleasantly, he took a sniff of air from a brickish garden, saw the brown walls of the cathedral not far away, and then went back to bed.

From The Art of Disappearing by Smith, John Talbot

I don't see anything brickish in saying that; it was the truth.

From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft

Now, Jack, you've been no end brickish, and I'm going to treat you.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick