Toughish

The estimable Bob Dalrymple, one of the brightest and more promising youngish Tories faces a toughish task in Michael Forsyth's old seat but if there really is a Tory "wave" then his is the seat that will prove its existence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The estimable Bob Dalrymple, one of the brightest and more promising youngish Tories faces a toughish task in Michael Forsyth's old seat but if there really is a Tory" wave "then his is the seat that will prove its existence." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The woman was pretty enough in a street-smart kind of way; dark hair, toughish face, compact body, muscular but skinny. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (2004)

My left-hand neighbor is a somewhat slangy young gentleman in a suit of chequered clothes, who carves the meats, being at the head of the table; and my happy propinquity secures me the honor of selection by the young gentleman as the recipient of his observations: a toughish round of beef which he is called upon to carve evokes from him an aside to the effect that it is "rather a dose." ❋ Various (N/A)

And the resemblance was further increased by the fact that he was "a toughish lot", who was "little, but steel and india-rubber". ❋ Unknown (1928)

Eckman was a toughish young Swede, and he thought it would be something of a lark to take a pretty girl through the slaughter-houses. ❋ Unknown (1915)

"Old Nick's a toughish customer d'ye see, and a glutton for punishment; wind him, cross-buttock him or floor him wi 'a leveller amidships, but he'll come up smiling next round, ready and willin' for more, an 'fight back at you' ard as ever, alas!" ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

Thus cried another sailor -- a toughish customer also -- and, as his voice rang out, a dozen more came running to the spot. ❋ Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1910)

"In a sense," Brightman continued, "that is a toughish job, isn't it, because whoever has them now can make as many copies as he chooses, and one set would be certain to get through." ❋ Unknown (1906)

Four hundred closely printed pages, in which hardly anything happens to the bodies of the characters, but a great deal to their spirits -- this perhaps is toughish meat for the ordinary devourer of fiction. ❋ Various (1898)

It was a toughish task, but with Small and Widgeon for his helpmates he soon had it off, and before long the two sailors were holding it crosswise over the saloon sky-light, while Mr Gregory rapidly secured it in its place with screws. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

It wasn't much regular up and down fighting we had, though we had some toughish battles too, but it were skirmishing here, skirmishing there, keeping one eye always open, for man, woman, and child hated us like pison, and it was little mercy that a straggler might expect if he got caught away from his friends. ❋ Unknown (1867)

And serving tired-out, toughish pate a choux, in the form of tiny gougeres or chocolate-sauced profiteroles, is another perplexing lapse in a place that clearly can do better. ❋ Alison Cook (2011)

Because of said daze, I'm not exactly sure how tough it was, but it felt toughish. ❋ Rex Parker (2010)

From: Crankbrothers slowrider - November 27th, 2009 ive looked at the ibis tranny many times with s view to a toughish build but was always scared of its teeny weight. look forward to seeing how it goes! ❋ Unknown (2009)