dwarfish
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“Now does he feel his title/Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe/Upon a dwarfish thief,” a thane observes in the final act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
“Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe/ upon a dwarfish thief.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
Across eons, large galaxies gradually assembled via countless collisions of their dwarfish kin, scientists presume.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2023
He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas - the dwarfish boy-man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2015
When I first arrived at the Amazon a dwarfish, bald man in a bellhop's uniform carried my suitcase up in the elevator and unlocked my room for me.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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