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Meanings of wraithlike in inglês

Lacking in substance.

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Examples for "shadowy"
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The interbank market connects strong banks with weaker counterparts and shadowy lenders.
Reuters
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Then the shadowy appearance of the two becomes visible in the mist.
The Two Destinies
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The other she left in the shadowy corner of the piano-forhim.
The Child of Pleasure
4
It rose shadowy there in the pale concourse, swaying in ghostly breezes.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
5
The lost float up in shadowy forms, and wail in whispered despair.
Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
Usage of wraithlike in inglês
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The tall naked treetops stood gaunt and wraithlike against a leaden sky.
Further Adventures of Lad
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Her night had been fitful, plagued by wraithlike dreams not fully formed.
Dark pursuit
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The light made K-2SO look wraithlike- agauntshadow with deathly bright eyes.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4
The young moon shed only a wan and wraithlike radiance over the plain.
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border
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The massive lines of the chair made her proportions seem wraithlike.
The Gay Cockade
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The music shifted, becoming livelier, the twins' voices rising in a wraithlike harmony.
The Assassin’s Blade
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For, each wraithlike smoke-swirl meant the death of tree and shrub.
Further Adventures of Lad
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Pictures I had seen of famine victims passed wraithlike before me.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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Even the ground, the watchful spellcaster noted, had its wraithlike counterpart.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
10
A cloaked figure materialized in front of him, appearing all at once, wraithlike.
Ilse Witch
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And yet-theface of the squaw rose before her, wraithlike, accusing!
Judith of the Plains
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Did he want to exist-itwas not living-forthat long in a wraithlike state?
Dayworld Breakup
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As MacArthur' s eyes adapted, he detected other hunters moving wraithlike through the shadows.
Genellan: planetfall
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Cursing the wraithlike Numidians, he shoved his black thoughts away.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
15
When the wraithlike stallion answered, Dru's hopes rose dramatically.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
16
Tokyo Crow's clientele came and went around us, wraithlike.
Woken furies
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Wraithlike through the time