liquorish
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- liquorishly adverb
- liquorishness noun
Example Sentences
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The noxious sweetness of many liquorish pumpkin offerings proves them to be agents of regression.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2014
In Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act?
From Time Magazine Archive
In flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.
From The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
He has such a terribly liquorish tooth of his own, there's no keeping him away from sweet things!
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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