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wraithlike::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shadowy |
a wraithlike column of smoke.
Examples of wraithlike
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Wraithlike figures robed in black looked curiously into the midafternoon sky.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
Abigail Boyle shines with wraithlike elegance as the Fairy Godmother.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Another, Half Day Closing, ends with Gibbons'eerie wail twisting wraithlike into the ether.
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I was able to chase away some flying wraithlike creatures just by thinking agitated, evil thoughts.
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Their wraithlike voices came to him when he was on the cusp of sleep, petitioning him, demanding their due passage to flesh.
From the theatlantic.com
The beautiful, wraithlike Keira Knightley stars as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, an 18th-century aristocrat far ahead of her time.
From the washingtontimes.com
Following a few spans behind Jax and company are the wraithlike Archivists, who are interested in Jax for unspecified Library business.
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Shawn Johnson is tigerish and alive, forceful where other gymnasts are ethereal, or in the case of some of her rivals, almost wraithlike.
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The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders.
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- Shadowy: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
- An apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death
