smallish
Example Sentences
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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
The company’s smallish software business operates at close to breakeven and the Bitcoin holdings yield nothing.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
She’s one of the best features in a smallish role in “Migration” and she’s an artful scene-stealer in “Panda 4.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024
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
Marcia and Benny both taught history, they came from the South and they even looked alike, with their smallish bodies and honey complexions and long Iocs grazing their necks.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
