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sharpish

/ ˈʃɑːpɪʃ /

adjective

  1. fairly sharp
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. informal.
    promptly; quickly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

A dark chap did once—through the ribs—it didn't feel so bad, a little sharpish at first; why didn't he aim a bit higher?

In five minutes they were all a-moving along in one mob at a pretty sharpish trot like a lot of store cattle.

We rode up sharpish, and showed our revolvers, singing out to him to 'bail up'.

My patience was exhausted, and I struck him a sharpish blow across the mouth, a hint that he took that he had better keep quiet.

There was something a little unsatisfactory in the countenance of this light-haired youth, with the sharpish upturned nose.

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