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
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
But across this dollish mask, like a gay melody dancing over an unchanging fundamental bass, passed Anne's other inheritance—quick laughter, light ironic amusement, and the changing expressions of many moods.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
I furnished him with a pair of dollish light eyes, with long eyelashes carefully drawn in, and as a masterstroke threw in the most taper-shaped waist.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss
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
