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Example sentences for "maidish"

Lexicographically close words:
maidenhood; maidenliness; maidenly; maidens; maides; maids; maidservant; maidservants; maie; maiest
  1. As time went on, Lisbeth had contracted some rather strange old-maidish habits.

  2. Jutting out of the black, moss-vegetating roof, is an old-maidish looking window, with a dowdy white curtain spitefully tucked up at the side.

  3. He is a little old-maidish about his age, which for the last twenty years has not got a day more than fifty-four.

  4. She clasped her hands together with an agitated old-maidish gesture.

  5. Then there's something old-maidish about her, something sharp and prudish that I don't quite fancy.

  6. Gone was her placid acceptance of the footprints of the years, gone her old-maidish pride in dainty, old-maidish dress.

  7. Every chair had its antimacassar, spread at its correct old-maidish angle.

  8. In an odd old-maidish room he undressed his uncle and slipped him into one of the late Mr. Jacobite's night-shirts.

  9. I should not like to be called an old maid, but I confess to an old-maidish care for cleanliness.

  10. Ruskin, with all the April showers of his rhetoric, discredited himself as an authoritative thinker when he screamed his old-maidish diatribes against that pioneer of modern romantic communication, the railroad.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maidish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.