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- adjective
Approximately fifty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His father was pushing the wheelchair and a fiftyish woman trailed behind.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Out of the corner of my eye I see a business suited, fiftyish, woman with a bad haircut and frumpy pumps, sitting at the table closest to our sofa, pull her skirt down over her knees and tap at her laptop several times.
The Spy At The Spot On Café MaryAnne Kolton 2011
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His father was pushing the wheelchair and a fiftyish woman trailed behind.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Betty Fraiden, fiftyish, had come on behalf of her father, Franklin Tillman.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Betty Fraiden, fiftyish, had come on behalf of her father, Franklin Tillman.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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You mean people like me who admit to being “fiftyish”?
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She was a fiftyish woman with bright blue eyes and skin the color and texture of old leather.
Lost Brother Franklin W. Dixon 2010
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Krusee is fiftyish, handsome, and blond, with the charm and slight impudence of someone who might have been a troublemaker as a child.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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