Definitions
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- adjective Close to the number
forty - adjective About forty years old.
- noun Any number
close toforty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Single and fortyish, Greenberg is intelligent, witty, sharp-tongued – and, like Florence, something of a lost soul; he is at a crossroads in his life.
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Single and fortyish, Greenberg is intelligent, witty, sharp-tongued – and, like Florence, something of a lost soul; he is at a crossroads in his life.
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In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife.
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"Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)] Christopher Snyder 2012
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"Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.3)] Christopher Snyder 2012
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She said her name was Mary Mallon, and described her as fortyish, tall, heavy, Irish from Ireland, in perfect health, and not known to have ever had an attack of the typhoid.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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Lots of Baby Boomers were fortyish and wanted to hang on to what was left of their youth and vitality.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Spade was at a table set for afternoon tea when the fortyish matron entered from Spokane's Sprague Avenue.
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She said her name was Mary Mallon, and described her as fortyish, tall, heavy, Irish from Ireland, in perfect health, and not known to have ever had an attack of the typhoid.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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"Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied.
Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.5)] Christopher Joseph Snyder 2012
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