Cut zucchini in thinnish lengthwise strips (not paper thin-use a knife). From Wordnik.com. [Not So Hot] Reference
Take a newly painted oil-picture; lay it on its back on the floor, and spread over it, "thinnish," some wet seaweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)] Reference
Her thinnish lips, close primmed as they were sewn. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831] Reference
Anything thinnish they just sting straight trough. From Wordnik.com. [I just beat my own record.] Reference
He was a thinnish, oldish man with watery blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Her Fearful Symmetry] Reference
She was thinnish but with enough body to have curves. From Wordnik.com. [Honesty] Reference
His dark, thinnish face was full of insolent haughtiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and other stories] Reference
The plot is thinnish, the ending completely unsatisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [Most Overrated?] Reference
He put on a wig of thinnish hair that straggled under his cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat]
They number four thinnish ones, and represent three-quarter rations. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Minn charged an old, thinnish elkryn, but the elkryn stood her ground. From Wordnik.com. [Promise of the Wolves] Reference
Here in BCS we have thinnish ones, but I bet thick ones would also work. From Wordnik.com. [Taco vs. Taquito] Reference
I had lot's of leftovers after cutting out the circles and they were a bit thinnish. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Bakers July Challenge - Strawberry Mirror Cake] Reference
I do remember thinnish (sub 250) SF paperbacks being quite plentiful when I was young. From Wordnik.com. [Are Books Just Too Darn Long?] Reference
That's a sight to stir a British heart - the thinnish red line and some British guards. From Wordnik.com. [Minden - 250th Anniversary] Reference
There was an ordinary-looking but rather thinnish cord leading from the set to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Menace of the Mutant Master]
The old guy who opened the front door was tallish and thinnish, but nowhere near as thin as Lance. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
On another occasion a guest and I were out foraging for food and we saw a few tall, thinnish fungi. From Wordnik.com. [Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own] Reference
A little man, about forty, with a long, narrow face, prominent cheek bones, and a thinnish black beard. From Wordnik.com. [Pan] Reference
Viktorya a spunj is two, thinnish spunj caeks, stuk togevver wit teh budder creem and teh strorbrey jam. From Wordnik.com. [You’ve Selected - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
He was thinnish, and held himself like a man with a stoop who had never before pulled back his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Tall and dark, and with good-looking, thinnish hands and almost amusing way of playing with his eye-glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
I am tallish and thinnish, with straight brown hair that I usually pull back and clip with one of those hair thingees. From Wordnik.com. [Bliss « A Fly in Amber] Reference
She had a thinnish face and narrow shoulders, but her hips had become enormous, so enormous that she could hardly walk. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]
The batter, even after refrigeration, was still thinnish which sometimes led to wacky-shaped tuiles rather than circular. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Bakers January Challenge - Tuiles] Reference
He seemed to be excited, but they couldn't clearly hear what he was saying because of the thinnish atmosphere and the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
A variant is to add sugar towards the last, enough to make a thinnish syrup, which is of itself a good sauce for simple desserts. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Ryabinin was a tall, thinnish, middle-aged man, with mustache and a projecting clean-shaven chin, and prominent muddy-looking eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
He is tall and thinnish, with sandy hair and cold gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
This book was printed in a very heavy type on thinnish paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Pixie] Reference
Chatterton and Kirke White both seem thinnish gruel to us; and even. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
Do you like a thinnish fall of golden hair, or an abundant cluster of nut-brown?. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
Here Sir Mortimer laughed loudly, and the thinnish, youngish gentleman giggled again. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
O---- a thinnish man with a reddish nose, dressed in an old green coat with a greasy plush collar. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character and Other Stories] Reference
Except in a storm, the night of the open always is thinnish, so you can see after your eyes are used to it. From Wordnik.com. [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference
In the library he found a small effaced-looking man with a thinnish gray beard sitting on the edge of a chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Now this Anaïtis who was Queen of Cocaigne was a delicious tall dark woman, thinnish, and lovely, and very restless. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
"I'd like it to be white tarlatan or something thinnish and gauzy like and kind of stand-outy without being stand-offish.". From Wordnik.com. [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference
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