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squarish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
squarish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A low, squarish object covered by a dust sheet caught his eye and he cautiously headed towards it.
▪ As far as possible the enclosure commissioners formed square or squarish fields.
▪ He assured me that they would clip together and three or four would make a squarish circle around my waist.
▪ Its long, low-slung body with squarish sides is a throwback to the Lincoln Continentals of the 1960s.
▪ The squarish wings, as opposed to the swept, triangular variety, suggests A-10s or 37 fighter-trainers.
▪ The afternoon light was in her squarish face.
▪ The lights were located on the undersides of squarish wings, Mitch says.
▪ The Staff Room had a squarish bay-window which looked out on the grass where we played.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squarish

Squarish \Squar"ish\, a. Nearly square.
--Pennant.

Wiktionary
squarish

a. 1 approximately square 2 oblong

WordNet
squarish

adj. somewhat square in appearance or form

Usage examples of "squarish".

The illuminated office windows of the Denali Institute of Metapsychology made squarish golden patterns on the white quadrangle.

Kevin Renner glanced in and saw a squarish chunk of white rock glittering with opal colors.

Then, pocketing his glittering revolver with a defiant, jerky motion, Sark shifted a squarish package under his arm and stalked along the street and around a corner.

Stepping into the squarish room, Gypper spoke to the two men who remained with him.

The large house was thatched, with round ends, Jivaro style, and around it were several smaller squarish houses with thatched roofs, square on the ends.

An odd, squarish black cap adorned his head and, Tobas guessed from the visible expanse of gleaming brow, hid a sizable bald spot.

The string of squarish vehicles crawled slowly by, small as matchboxes, the toy men on their toy camels like red spiders beside them.

Their heads were squarish, thick, and both males and females had huge walruslike mustaches.

Helkyt nods his head up and down slowly, then takes out a piece of squarish cloth and blots his forehead.

The illuminated office windows of the Denali Institute of Metapsychology made squarish golden patterns on the white quadrangle.

THE ULTIMAX MAN 209 end, an astonishingly wide mouth opened on large, squarish, lemon yellow teeth and a bright pink buccal cavity where a grayish tongue lolled.

The huge Cloaca Maxima poured its filth into the river just a little ways upstream, between the Pons Sublicius and the Pons Aemilius farther upriver, just visible past the little round Temple of Hercules (the one all his childhood textbooks had called the Temple of Vesta) and the squarish Temple of Fortuna Virilis.

The dacha with the sea-blue tile roof was just outside Yalta, on the Crimean peninsula that jutted, squarish, tailed, south into the Black Sea.

A squarish tent had been erected, and next to it a husky German shepherd leaped and barked.

It belonged to a muscle-bound type in cross-gartered hose and a leather apron, with an interesting assortment of soot smudges and singed hairs in place of a shirt, and an even more interesting hammer-a squarish block of iron with an oaken handle.