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  • adjective Reasonably straight.

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Examples

  • I have baby-fine, straightish (frizzy when humid) hair of indeterminate color (started going grey at 27 and freaked) – and I hate it.

    Good 'Hair?' Hardly. How Chris Rock gets it wrong | EW.com 2009

  • In a straightish line up the hill, a double column of tables, each for an organization or vendor.

    Nonviolence Festival (2) star_tourmaline 2007

  • "It should only take us, like, five years or something, and that's including the one-year sabbatical we're taking when we turn 21," said the twin with the straightish hair in a press conference yesterday.

    The Olsens Living MySpace Offline. The New Black Ben Barren 2006

  • First Rob stood behind me and chopped a straightish line off, then I decided it wasn't short enough yet but I was too tired to do it again, and the next morning Rob cut it shorter.

    Haircut and chocolate mouse262 2006

  • And while sexuality doesn't work like that - we straightish women have to learn to deal with male heterosexuality or take a vow of abstinence - I bet the number of women prepared to sign up for the straight-to-gay conversion group would really worry those stupid extremists.

    Equal Humanity for Gays/Lesbians? Part II Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • If her bust measurement and shoulders are than her hips, she started as an Upside-Down Triangle; she can opt for a straightish silhouette, or for a Pear shape because she still goes OUT at the waistline, remember?

    Are you a Ruler or an Apple? - A Dress A Day 2006

  • I am wiped out by my last day of examiner training right now, so will sign off while I can still see straightish, if not spell.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Jessica 2004

  • I am wiped out by my last day of examiner training right now, so will sign off while I can still see straightish, if not spell.

    ...yes, Yes, YES, !!!!!!YES!!!!!!! Jessica 2004

  • Its demimonde of second-rate showbiz performers, of fallen angels, pushers, pederasts, gays, dykes and straights (straightish, anyway) is of a world without boundaries, colliding and dangerous, in loveless America.

    Welcome to The Wild Party ! Dangerous, Seedy ��� Fantastic 2000

  • She was wearing a straightish dress of soft looking knobbly green tweed with a row of silver buttons from throat to hem.

    For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965

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