thinnish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of thinnish
Example Sentences
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A thinnish, bruise-purple rubber tube serves as the strap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
It's a long, thinnish strand of pasta, but then you already knew that, because who doesn't know what spaghetti looks like?
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022
In photographs from those years, he does not have the tough-nut look of many touts: he had a long, thinnish face, a cheeky smile and ever-present shades.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016
Thick woods were on the left and, on our right, a thinnish strip of trees blocking our view of the beach, where, it had been made clear, bears loved to wander.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2015
Merrick was still handsome in his stooping tawny way: handsomer perhaps, with thinnish hair and more lines in his face, than in the young excess of his good looks.
From The Long Run 1916 by Wharton, Edith
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