-ish
//ɪʃ//
"-ish" in a Sentence (7 examples)
Her face had a girlish charm.
[…] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […]
Her face had a bluish tinge.
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
We arrived at tennish. We arrived tennish.
I couldn't tell his precise age, but he looked fiftyish.
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