faint
adjective
lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc..
faintish
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a word derived from
faint.
Example Sentences
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“It smell faintish in these old houses,” Arrabelle said, working her nose away from the coffee.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
She even felt faintish at him, as women will in such cases.
From White Lies by Charles Reade
The old man in a faintish voice asked her for a morsel to eat: he had come fasting.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Tony drew away his arm and leaned back in his chair, a sense almost of faintish sickness creeping over him.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
Then, with a faintish, but angry voice, begone from my door!—Wretch! inhuman, barbarous, and all that is base and treacherous! begone from my door!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
