Definitions

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  • adjective Similar to, or resembling, a toad.

Etymologies

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From toad +‎ -like.

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Examples

  • It contains nothing fantastical, except for the mere overlarge size of the house in which the toadlike grotesques slump and commit arson or murder, and the world is more dreary, disenchanting, and mundane than our world, not less.

    Voice Of The Fans: What Books Have You Stopped Reading? 2010

  • After filling itself with a number of fly souls, it ceased being toadlike.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • For all her toadlike ugliness, her black gaze was piercingly keen.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • After filling itself with a number of fly souls, it ceased being toadlike.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • She was small and plump, her head thrusting forward from rounded shoulders and a yellow, toadlike face set with very small, sharp black eyes.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • For all her toadlike ugliness, her black gaze was piercingly keen.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • After filling itself with a number of fly souls, it ceased being toadlike.

    Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010

  • For all her toadlike ugliness, her black gaze was piercingly keen.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • She was small and plump, her head thrusting forward from rounded shoulders and a yellow, toadlike face set with very small, sharp black eyes.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • She was small and plump, her head thrusting forward from rounded shoulders and a yellow, toadlike face set with very small, sharp black eyes.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

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