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- adjective Somewhat
tight .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It will need to be on a tightish budget, and I'd prefer to avoid an organised tour.
Ask Tom - your travel dilemmas answered Tom Hall 2010
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The Vancouver bits are either blue screen or "tightish inserts".
Behind the Scenes Footage From The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus | /Film 2009
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Given the tightish links between the Anglosphere Lodges - it gives a sense on an organisation with deep roots and secrets.
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Being buttoned up in a tightish blue surtout, with a buff waistcoat and gray trousers, he had something of a military air, but he announced himself at the Crozier (the orthodox hotel, where he put up with a portmanteau) as an idle dog who lived upon his means; and he farther announced that he had a mind to take
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The term "breastblogging" had nothing to do with Clinton - it's apparently just a word for the condemnable, anti-feminist act of showing a woman in a tightish t-shirt on a blog.
Please... Ann Althouse 2006
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I've always previously kept my most deeply held beliefs under a tightish rein - because it's a secular forum, so I have never felt it that appropriate to come right out and say 'hey, I'm a Christian, I really do believe this stuff'.
Dust and bones Sam Norton 2005
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Toni, who I'm now more certain than ever is ideally suited to him, showed up (and she's not a tiny woman - I'd put her at a size 10 or 12 - healthy sized and buxom) in a tightish sparkly Eiffle tower shirt and a sequined blue skirt that barely covered her ass.
Tales of the Journey Part 2 sidewinder 2002
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They are clothed in cotton or silk from the ankles to the throat, and the men, even in the undress of their own homes, usually wear the sarong, a picturesque tightish petticoat, consisting of a wide piece of stuff kept on by a very ingenious knot.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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He chose a tightish perimeter which allowed each platoon commander to place two sections covering open ground to his front, and held back the third section in depth.
First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984
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It was My Lady -- formerly My Lady -- clad in embroidered short Spanish jacket, tightish velvet pantaloons, booted to the knees, pulled down upon her yellow hair a black soft hat, and hanging from the just-revealed belt around her slender waist, a revolver trifle.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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