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

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

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

"I had longish curtains hair so my mum used to dab her black eyeliner onto the patches to take the eye away from the areas."

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

Once clean shaven and conservatively groomed, he now had a beard and longish hair and affected the military-style clothing characteristic of freedom fighters around the continent.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela