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Example sentences for "poorish"

Lexicographically close words:
poorely; poorer; poorest; poorhouse; poorhouses; poorly; poorness; poort; poortith; poorty
  1. It was, in fact, a poorish match and the young couple were dependent more or less on Wardle.

  2. When she was really blind, Simon would have to do for her instead of her doing for him, but he would only make a poorish job of it, she felt sure.

  3. It had a very large frontage, six or seven windows of a row I think, a dingy-looking building that most people would have passed without noticing, or would have thought it a dwelling-house of poorish people.

  4. I certainly was in luck to get all this fun for such trifling sums, I being still in poorish circumstances.

  5. When the ground is at all hard a poorish drive does not do a great deal of harm, and a long one means a comfortable second shot with an iron club.


  6. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poorish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crumbling; decrepit; disintegrating; infirm; poor; rotten; unsound; unstable; unsubstantial