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Discover LudwigThe word 'smallish' is correct and usable in written English
It is an informal adjective, meaning somewhat small or on the small side. Example: The studio apartment was smallish, but it had everything I needed.
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smallish
adjective
Somewhat small.
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The escalators are not quite the liberating devices they were on the Pompidou Centre, where they took citizens on a free ride to the sky, but take you to a smallish landing beyond which (unless you have business in the building) you cannot go.
So is the smallish union that represents steel and textile workers and now calls itself Community.
Southern right whales can be seen calving in the southern winter (July-September) off Puerto Madryn, though the best place to see them is Puerto Pirámides on the Valdés peninsula, from which smallish boats allow visitors to get close to the huge cetaceans.
What initially appears a smallish tweak could end up having an unforeseen impact.
The university's presence in a smallish city (which has a population of approximately 330,000) is substantial, and through a close relationship with the city council it has expanded into the city.
Do some minor prep at the beginning of the week by making smallish batches of a couple of veggie dishes and salads, and enjoy them over three days in small quantities, supplemented with a mix of breads, crackers and crudités.
Many of the sellers are smallish, family-owned Mittelstand firms, which would be hit hard if sanctions led to a fall in trade.
The confederal budget is smallish, at 11% of GDP, but that is far larger than the EU's, which is less than 1% of GDP.
The drugs giants have pursued all sorts of tie-ups, from alliances to licensing deals to outright purchases of a few smallish companies.
That is why the smallish but big-stateish San Francisco Bay area has so many more of them than huge, empty and small-statish Montana.Hans Dembowski FrankfurtA divisive figureSIR – Yes, Ian Paisley dominated political and public life in Northern Ireland (Obituary, September 20th), but in an extraordinarily negative and destructive manner.
As Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute puts it, if America cannot pass a smallish regional trade agreement, it is clearly "ill equipped and unprepared" to negotiate seriously in the Doha round.Nor is CAFTA the only chance for Congress to flex its muscles.
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