dwarfish
Example Sentences
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“Now does he feel his title/Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe/Upon a dwarfish thief,” a thane observes in the final act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Across eons, large galaxies gradually assembled via countless collisions of their dwarfish kin, scientists presume.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2023
He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas - the dwarfish boy-man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2015
Even the show’s most invigorating musical sequences — in which the dwarfish factory workers known as the Oompa-Loompas ply their trade — are notable for the stunt merging of people with puppets.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2013
He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas—the dwarfish boy- man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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