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longish

[lawng-ish, long-] / ˈlɔŋ ɪʃ, ˈlɒŋ- /






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Walking on a balcony, I turned a corner, and there he was, tall and slender, with soulful brown eyes and a longish mop of brown hair threatening to hide them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2025

The account of this period of Númenórean history is longish and rather dull, despite the inclusion of a tale of ill-fated love.

From Washington Post Nov. 21, 2022

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

Weird, perhaps: Some of the characters are ghosts; there are longish passages of improvised song.

From New York Times Jun. 22, 2022

‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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