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- adjective informal Somewhat
sad ;sad -looking
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kinda, saddish, Neil stated as he licked his cheesy fingers.
Huntington & Chandler, P.I.s: Family Jewels | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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Lyrics might be saddish but it is oh so soft and flowing.
hemopoetic Diary Entry hemopoetic 2002
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But when I looked at it, instead of feeling kinda happy inside like I nearly always did when we had our pretty lady other teacher for a teacher, I felt kinda saddish.
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens
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Just that second, Tom's mother coughed, a kinda saddish, sickish cough, that sounded like maybe she was a lot sicker than she ought to be, and I knew that if my mom was as sick as that Pop would have a doctor out to see her right away, so I said, "Has the doctor been here?"
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens
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The countenance was long, elfin, sneering, solemn, as of a truculent demon, saddish for his trade, an ashamed, but unrepentant rascal.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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No merrier man in his mess: in marked contrast to certain other individuals included like himself among the impressed portion of the ship's company; for these when not actively employed were sometimes, and more particularly in the last dog-watch when the drawing near of twilight induced revery, apt to fall into a saddish mood which in some partook of sullenness.
Billy Budd 1924
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At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.
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He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head -- three verses -- kind of sweet and saddish -- the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart" -- and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.
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He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head -- three verses -- kind of sweet and saddish -- the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart" -- and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 Mark Twain 1872
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He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head -- three verses -- kind of sweet and saddish -- the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart" -- and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
hernesheir commented on the word saddish
"I had a beautiful, saddish, but altogether pacific, solitary and improving ride to Birmingham and got into the hotel about 11:00 p.m., actually disposed to eat some slight article -- an egg with a crumb of toast as it chanced." - from a previously unpublished letter of the Scottish writer/satirist/historian (1795-1881), dated 29 August 1850, Scotsbrig. From the British agricultural journal The Countryman, Vol. LIII, No. 1, p. 50, 1956.
September 1, 2010