longish
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of longish
Example Sentences
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Walking on a balcony, I turned a corner, and there he was, tall and slender, with soulful brown eyes and a longish mop of brown hair threatening to hide them.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025
Don’t be intimidated by that longish list of spices.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
"I had longish curtains hair so my mum used to dab her black eyeliner onto the patches to take the eye away from the areas."
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021
Ifemelu could tell, from the longish length, the near-perfect waves that grazed his collar, that he took fastidious care of his hair.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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