Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a witch or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective being or having the character of witchcraft

Etymologies

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witch +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Her witchlike face screwed into a tiny wrinkled prune.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Not pretty faces and breasts like Millie's; their visages were witchlike and their dugs grotesque.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • The murky blue-black fluid inside did look a little witchlike.

    The Opposite of Me SARAH PEKKANEN 2010

  • Her witchlike face screwed into a tiny wrinkled prune.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Her witchlike face screwed into a tiny wrinkled prune.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Her forefinger indicated the uglier, more witchlike of the two suffragists, the skinny one with a big nose and dead black hair and ruffles on her coat that looked like leaves of cabbage.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Her forefinger indicated the uglier, more witchlike of the two suffragists, the skinny one with a big nose and dead black hair and ruffles on her coat that looked like leaves of cabbage.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Her forefinger indicated the uglier, more witchlike of the two suffragists, the skinny one with a big nose and dead black hair and ruffles on her coat that looked like leaves of cabbage.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Dahl and his young accomplices are a “gang of desperadoes,” locked in mortal combat with the hideous villain of the piece, Mrs. Pratchett, a comic distillation of the two witchlike sisters who, it seems, ran the shop in real life.16 She is “a small, skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip and a mouth as sour as a green gooseberry.”

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Her witchlike face screwed into a tiny wrinkled prune.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

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