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
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
There’s evidence of the mullet — which is characterized by hair closely shorn everywhere except at the back of the head, where it is left longish — appearing in ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
Samuel Walter McCandless, Jr., fifty-six years old, is a bearded, taciturn man with longish salt-and-pepper hair combed straight back from a high forehead.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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