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dwarfishly

  • a word derived from dwarf.
    dwarf
    noun
    a person of abnormally small physical stature resulting from a medical or genetic condition, especially a person with achondroplasia or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
  • a word derived from dwarfish.
    dwarfish
    adjective
    like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.

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The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.

From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson