poorish

How to use poorish in a sentence

• About nightfall,—their horse having made poorish fight, though the foot had stood to it like men,—they roll universally away.

  History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• Without more or less of this knowledge, a lady, even the wife of a peer, is but a poorish thing.

  Advice to Young Men | William Cobbett

• Never mind your being poorish as yet; there's money in your head-piece as there's money i' the sown field, but it must ha' time.

  Adam Bede | George Eliot

• It was, in fact, a poorish match and the young couple were dependent more or less on Wardle.

  Pickwickian Studies | Percy Fitzgerald

• Dartie reflected that Bosinney would have a poorish time in that cab if he didn't look sharp!

  The Forsyte Saga, Complete | John Galsworthy