longish
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of longish
Example Sentences
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Walking on a balcony, I turned a corner, and there he was, tall and slender, with soulful brown eyes and a longish mop of brown hair threatening to hide them.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025
When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
The novel was turned into a mini-series for French television in 1966, but the breathless sprawl of a longish feature film may serve it better.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
To show what I mean, let me quote a longish paragraph from her latest book, “Esmond and Ilia,” a double portrait of her parents during the first years of their marriage.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022
She worked on it for a week, using a sharpened Popsicle stick to shape the slightly bulging eyes and the goatee and earring and longish hair.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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