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

“Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe/ upon a dwarfish thief.”

From Salon

Across eons, large galaxies gradually assembled via countless collisions of their dwarfish kin, scientists presume.

From Scientific American

The show was canceled by Mr. Putin, who took umbrage at his representation by an ugly, dwarfish puppet.

From New York Times

As in Kafka, too, there are an unusual number of physically odd, deformed, or dwarfish figures.

From The New Yorker