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Definition of "squarish" [squar•ish]

  • Somewhat or almost square. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "squarish" in a sentence
  • "She looked at him as he slept, his squarish face with its heavy brows and deep-set eyes always made her think of the bust of a Roman senator she had seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was dressed in his usual denim shirt and khaki shorts."
  • "The premolars and molars are squarish, flattened and nodular, and used for crushing, grinding and pulping noncoarse foods."
  • "Small heaps lay on the heads of the two figures, on the strange squarish hats both wore like the caps hotel porters wear in old black-and-white movies of the 1930s."
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