lickerish

Example Sentences

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Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Right through the window—knocked over both them green lights—kicked a box o' lickerish all over the sidewalk—kin you spare one?

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus

When first the Hawkers bawl'd 'ith' streets Wild's name, A lickerish longing to my Pallat came; A feast of Wit I look't for, but, alass!

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

At sunrise they are driven to water, to make them more lickerish on their return.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax