longish

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As do most of the main characters, Nicholson gets a longish theatrical monologue to remind us that there’s a hurting person in there somewhere, and, really, she does a great job of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

Don’t be intimidated by that longish list of spices.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

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

There’s evidence of the mullet — which is characterized by hair closely shorn everywhere except at the back of the head, where it is left longish — appearing in ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

Janie took a big needle and ran up a longish sack.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston