Tallish
[tɒ:liʃ]
Examples
- In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sitting in front of the fire, with his back towards him, was a tallish gentleman in a greatcoat: the only other occupant of the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Oh, tallish, dark, clever--talks well--rather a prig, I think. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Laurence