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Surely there had been none of that sweetishness about the fragrant Havana when I lighted it on the way up.

From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Its bland sweetishness was not to our taste, but we had to eat.

From Stamped Caution by Gallun, Raymond Z.

The leaves of the plant discover a viscid sweetishness, accompanied with a more durable saponaceous pungency and warmth: these seem capable of answering some useful purposes, as a stimulating, aperient, antiscorbutic medicine.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William