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sharpish
adj 2adv 1
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4ADJ.
ahead, pretty, round
VERB + SHARPISH
fly, get, let's, made, mend
SHARPISH + NOUN
knife
ADV.
away
Definitions
adj
1
Somewhat sharp (sudden, abrupt).
The car made a sharpish turn.
On straights speed would quicken to what was apparently the maximum allowed on this stretch, 140 k.p.h., or 87.5 m.p.h., and then one would see the track disappearing ahead round a sharpish curve, for there are some of 35 and 40 chains' radius on this side of the summit as well.
2
Somewhat sharp; not blunt.
a sharpish knife
adv
1
Rapidly, soon.
You'd better mend your ways sharpish!
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The car made a sharpish turn.
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On straights speed would quicken to what was apparently the maximum allowed on this stretch, 140 k.p.h., or 87.5 m.p.h., and then one would see the track disappearing ahead round a sharpish curve, for
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a sharpish knife
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You'd better mend your ways sharpish!
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Dark clouds are moving in – a storm is coming. Let's get home sharpish.
Tatoeba · #858980506
If aliens were to visit Earth and see the state we're in, they'd fly away pretty sharpish. They wouldn't want to have anything to do with us.
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