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Mr. Dahl revised their portrayal in later editions of the work, turning the Oompa Loompas into fanciful dwarflike creatures from a made-up country, Loompaland.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2017

A dwarflike being with legs as thick as tree trunks: knocker.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

The higher we ascend, so much the shorter and more dwarflike do the fir-trees become, shrinking up, as it were, within themselves, until finally only whortleberries, bilberries, and mountain herbs remain.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

And now because the immortal God This spot in dwarflike semblance trod, The grove has aye been loved by me For reverence of the devotee.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

And now because the Immortal God This spot in dwarflike semblance trod, The grove has aye been loved by me For reverence of the devotee.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir