wildish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wildish
Example Sentences
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Huston is a tall woman, striding confidently to the rose garden on her sprawling, wildish ranch in Three Rivers, a California town of about 2,000 residents, set in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2019
Mr. Meadows is getting wildish; it frightens me to see such a man as him burst out like that.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
You’ve got Dartmoor to cross, and as it’s a wildish tract, I’d advise you to get a lift if you can until you are over it.
From The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston
On the afternoon of the day they sailed, the sky looked wildish, and the master prognosticated either wind or heavy rain.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by R. T. Landells
He knew that Agatha must be ill; and that there is no more efficient quietus to wildish meditations than the heating of hot-water bottles and the administration of hypnotics he had long ago discovered.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
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