liquorish
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The noxious sweetness of many liquorish pumpkin offerings proves them to be agents of regression.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2014
In Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act?
From Time Magazine Archive
In flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
And would’st thou seek again to trap me here With liquorish baits, fit to ensnare a brute?
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
The liquorish tailor listened greedily, expecting to hear of the means whereby his condition would be so wonderfully amended.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
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