You mean people like me who admit to being “fiftyish”?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America] Reference
Beacom was a beefy man, fiftyish and wide across the chest. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
The attendant was a fiftyish clown with an authoritarian face. From Wordnik.com. [A Bomb Built in Hell]
One jobless, fiftyish man seemed to fit this description perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You] Reference
Erie turned to see a fiftyish woman stepping out of the Monkey House. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
He was a self-contained man, greyish, fiftyish, very neat and precise. From Wordnik.com. [Slay Ride]
Oh, they just walked around looking for fiftyish people to get a reaction from. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee and complaints about Social Security.] Reference
Do you know any other fiftyish lawyers who look this good in a pair of tight jeans?. From Wordnik.com. ["Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication...."] Reference
Now he was fiftyish, and it had been two years since his last physical examination. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
A Mrs. Courtenay, a fiftyish widow, lived over there, just two doors from the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
His name was Monsieur Corty: fiftyish, potbellied, puff-faced, sad eyes … archetypal. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in the Fifth] Reference
In fact, Turner's been stepping out with fiftyish, French-born artist Frederique D'Arrago. From Wordnik.com. [As Ted's World Turns] Reference
The door opened and a plump woman, grey-haired and fiftyish, peered out into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
It's those in the middle-thirtyish to fiftyish-who will render the first historical verdict. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Up With Nixon] Reference
The door opened and a plump woman, - grey-haired and fiftyish, peered out into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
She was a fiftyish woman with bright blue eyes and skin the color and texture of old leather. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Brother] Reference
The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
He assumed that the fiftyish man had, and noted the skill with which the man had retrieved it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
He goes to see him, but fails to reach the man as the cops claim fiftyish Brendan committed suicide. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Sleep-Paul Tremblay « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
Ah. The waitress, fiftyish, smiled at him as though she understood perfectly where he had just been. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
Melissa led us to Nicole Quinn, a fiftyish African American directing her first film - in her own home. From Wordnik.com. [Thelma Adams: Racing Daylight] Reference
I looked and saw a fiftyish fellow one tailgate over, sitting in a lawn chair surrounded by friends and family. From Wordnik.com. [Thanks anyway, friend] Reference
My patient — fiftyish, stout, taciturn — was recovering from abdominal surgery he'd had about a week before. From Wordnik.com. [Whoops!] Reference
The rumpled shirt had a face to match — fiftyish, lived-in, blandly unremarkable except for sharp periwinkle-blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
Max was fiftyish, sported an out-of-style crew cut and had a penchant for wearing chinos with crisply starched white shirts. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
Alongi -- fiftyish, trim, and studiously attractive -- looked over the rim of the thick porcelain cup, standard diner-issue. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Or maybe she thought that taking a few years off her age, which seemed to be fiftyish, would have constituted “bullshitting.”. From Wordnik.com. [Shrink Dreams] Reference
The fiftyish owner answered Ross's questions readily and with interest while his wife stacked cans of tuna and sardines on a shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
Dark, almost B & W, stereotypical characters, sort of a fiftyish feel to it, with the exception of one scene where he has a cell phone. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit (movie)] Reference
The man walked toward Aksyonov, swabbed his mouth with a handkerchief: heavy-set, fiftyish, with low, thick eyebrows and a brilliant gaze. From Wordnik.com. [BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan] Reference
Paul Davis—fiftyish, white, handsome in a tweedy, goateed way—clicked the set into silence and looked down at the résumé on his desk. From Wordnik.com. [Little Earthquakes] Reference
MR FOREMAN: Older, at least fiftyish, an old fashioned manufacturer, nosy. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
We nodded mute hellos, feeling smug to be fittish at fiftyish, and tramped on. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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