longish
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of longish
Example Sentences
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As do most of the main characters, Nicholson gets a longish theatrical monologue to remind us that there’s a hurting person in there somewhere, and, really, she does a great job of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
The account of this period of Númenórean history is longish and rather dull, despite the inclusion of a tale of ill-fated love.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
Weird, perhaps: Some of the characters are ghosts; there are longish passages of improvised song.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.”
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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