[…] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.
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Dwarfish
Synonyms for "dwarfish" (63 found)
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7 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дребен adj (being especially small)
- недоразвит adj (being especially small)
Māori
2 entries- tauhena adj (being especially small)
- tauwhena adj (being especially small)
Polish
2 entries- karli adj (being especially small)
- karłowaty adj (being especially small)
Portuguese
1 entries- anânico (a) adj (being especially small)
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1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.
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The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.
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Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]
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