What is "shortish"

Usage examples of "shortish".

Now she wore an expensive Texas style black Stetson hat sitting on her shortish, curly red hair.

One, a shortish man with a coal-black beard, moved so majestically that he seemed almost a giant.

At their head was a shortish plump man, maybe fifty years old, with a round face and a neatly trimmed black moustache.

Jackson was a shortish man with a head of hair designed to be noticed.

The young Havenite officer turned half around and more or less hauled a shortish woman away from her conversation with one of the guests.

He directed their attention to a shortish, sandy-haired man who was walking purposefully away from them.

He was a shortish man, about five feet seven, and round but not really fat, with black hair going gray at the temples.

He is a shortish man, with white side-whiskers, plentiful grey hair, shrewd eyes, and gold pince-nez.

His figure was rectangular, waistless, neckless, ankleless, of middle height, looking shortish because, though he was not particularly stout, there was nothing slender about him.

He was a shortish little man, and he wore a high hat, and he was running so fast that his legs verily twinkled.

Fatally compromised and incognizant of this fact, a shortish nanosecond burst of information directed Hub-wards was the last action of the stubborn nchoi Limpet as the Gromburg thing destroyed it.

For all her shortish stature and broad, dumpy appearance, the woman was strong as an ox and could on occasion move as fast as greased lightning.