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- adjective informal Of about
sixty years of age.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A gruff-looking guy, sixtyish, leans against the counter.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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Blair is a soft-spoken sixtyish fellow who retains the military bearing of his Air Force career.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Instead he saw a heavyset, sixtyish woman in a red jacket, accompanied by a man wearing a gray suit and sunglasses.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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A gruff-looking guy, sixtyish, leans against the counter.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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Instead he saw a heavyset, sixtyish woman in a red jacket, accompanied by a man wearing a gray suit and sunglasses.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Blair is a soft-spoken sixtyish fellow who retains the military bearing of his Air Force career.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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He led her through the wood-paneled police station and past a sixtyish woman seated at a metal desk beside one of the offices.
Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010
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He led her through the wood-paneled police station and past a sixtyish woman seated at a metal desk beside one of the offices.
Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010
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At the one nearest the counter, a sour-looking, sixtyish Caucasian woman in a skirt much too short and tight for her aging, shifting figure glanced up at them and narrowed her eyes, then went back to her typing.
When Rose Wakes Christopher Golden 2010
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But on an ominous note, Bob, the sixtyish foreman, told me that when he started out in the business, the water table where we live was at around 200 feet, only about half the depth of today, depleted by rampant development going on in the area.
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