grannyish
Britishadjective
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Although Morgan complained about the captain of the Magdella’s caution, calling him “grannyish,” many of the ships bound for California met with ill fates.
From Scientific American
My devotion to Waze is so complete that I have even anthropomorphized the faux-female voice into a petite, tough-but-kind grannyish woman–think Dr. Ruth, but a smidge younger and without the accent–who exists solely to make my life better.
From Time
Having reached the grannyish age when folks elect to blow their wads on a buffet-laden round-the-world cruise, my sister Shelagh and I decided the time had come to take a trip, a big, fat, gay, Wild West, hippie-dippie trip of a lifetime.
From Slate
Arnaud Maurières and Eric Ossart parachuted into Taroudant the same year, trailing their fame as garden designers who revolutionized public plantings in France by replacing grannyish pointillist flower beds with fluid, meadowlike compositions.
From New York Times
The genuinely Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass, best known in the UK for Lemon Tree, plays Hind, and almost has a chance to shine in the film's earlier scenes when she is a dynamic activist; but then she subsides into an old mother-hen character, with grannyish hair and specs that make her look like Maureen Lipman from the BT ads.
From The Guardian
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