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The eggs vary in shape from a broadish oval to an elongated oval compressed at one end; they are glossy and, in a strong light, the surface looks pitted.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind. 

From Doctor Marigold by Dickens, Charles

Vertically out of the cocoa-nut rises a pipe which ends in a long bowl holding the Tambac, which is a second species of tobacco having broadish yellow leaves worked up with wet.

From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne

"See you on Sunday," said the earl, with a broadish smile.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Moore, Frank Frankfort

"He seemed a well-be-doing man—had grey hair and a broadish face; but he gave no name, and no message."

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas