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Wildish

Wildish \Wild"ish\, a. Somewhat wild; rather wild. ``A wildish destiny.''
--Wordsworth.

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wildish

a. Somewhat wild.

Usage examples of "wildish".

Society considered the Earl of Fleetwood wildish, though he could manage his affairs.

She could frighten a wildish cow and bail up anything that would stay in a yard with her.

Bella Barnes was going to marry a surveyor, a wildish young fellow, but a good one to work as ever was.

They had had a wildish night, a hard day, that ended with a telling-off from an artist, and the assurance they had wrecked their prospects for life.

He creates a wild Spain, a wild England, a wild Wales, and in them places himself, the Gypsies, and other wildish men, and himself again.

And mind you, a fresh wildish beast can go like smoke for a hundred yards.

Everything has a quiet but wildish pastoral and sylvan look, and the bleating of sheep fills the hollow of the hills.

It was, in fact, a wildish night, and I stayed until the little yellow speck went out, and all I could see through the murk was an occasional canopy of curving spray when the elbow of the Trevone Light touched a bare corner of that black Gulland.

Jim had, like most young men of his fresh, wildish constitution, and good disposition, loved old men, for their pretty gentle ways, and their complacent politeness.