doll
noun
a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.
dollish
-
a word derived from
doll.
Example Sentences
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Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers, tinted a strange bluish shade, and framed in white plastic.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For the first time an expression not altogether dollish darkened across Rae Malgregor's garishly juvenile blondeness.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Pink for pink, blue for blue, gold for gold, dollish smirk for dollish smirk, the mirror mocked her seething inner fretfulness.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The figure wore a lofty bridal coiffure picked out with sprigs of orange blossom, and smiled with a dollish smile.
From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
An expression of contempt curled Rose's lip, as she glanced at Ella, and thought of being outshone by her dollish figure and face.
From The English Orphans by Mary Jane Holmes
