sweetish
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Our supermarket loaf, which accounts for 80% of all the bread bought in the UK, is sweetish, soft and pappy.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019
In April, I tried to persuade you to ignore any prejudices you might have against lambrusco as the sweetish red your mother may have kept in the refrigerator door.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2019
His katsu sando at Adana also gets special tonkatsu sauce, made in-house — and yes, that sweetish, familiar flavor is ketchup in the mix, along with sesame, too.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019
It is, as you may have guessed, a cocktail, though it is also the first of two desserts, sweetish and not especially boozy.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
For the last two weeks lunch has been either spinach or cooked lettuce with huge potatoes that have a rotten, sweetish taste.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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