smallish

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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

Ranchi, smallish by Indian standards, is full to the brim, and some journalists have been slung out of their hotels.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2024

It’s a smallish space that can fit up to 45 people, but somehow it feels much bigger — maybe it’s the open roof or the focus-pulling wall mural that resembles Matisse cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Leaning against the back wall, wrapped in a cloth covering, was a smallish rectangular shape.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett