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  • adjective Somewhat quiet

Etymologies

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quiet +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Dealers expect a "quietish" week as many players will only return to work next week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Asked what the situation was like in the Evaton/Sebokeng area where tensions mounted following the massacre in nearby Boipatong last week, Col Bruce said "quietish".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • I live in the East Village of New York City, and its flat terrain and quietish streets are perfect for a Xootr also my longboard skateboard, but that's another story.

    Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Chris Elam from Meatless Monday Maria Rodale 2011

  • I live in the East Village of New York City, and its flat terrain and quietish streets are perfect for a Xootr also my longboard skateboard, but that's another story.

    Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Chris Elam from Meatless Monday Maria Rodale 2011

  • Do be minded that -- excuse me, my love (ph), do be minded that the police, even though this is quietish at the moment, they will be aware that this could get out of hand, particularly when the leaders leave at some point.

    CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009 2009

  • A quietish week in Canberra has finally let me clear my backlog and even find time to catch up on my journal again.

    Journal: 5 December 1999 Alex Allan 2009

  • What he had counted on was one quietish fire engine, two or three policemen, and a police psychiatrist, and being talked back in.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • What he had counted on was one quietish fire engine, two or three policemen, and a police psychiatrist, and being talked back in.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Bilisa also had a head cold and was breaking out in webbing between her toes and fingers from handling an enchanted frog, but those were quietish maladies, not calculated to make her scream in the dark and wake the house.

    In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • When they reached the ground floor the single-handed porter was just carrying a passenger in the lift to the floor above, so they got unobserved into the street, a quietish street, a cul-de-sac.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

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