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heelish

heelish adjective: exhibiting the characteristics of a heel.

Adjective

heelish (comparative more heelish, superlative most heelish)

  1. Exhibiting the characteristics of a heel.
    • The heelish pair plotted to make everyone believe that their partnership was on its way out.2002, Robert Picarello, Monsters of the Mat
    • Grant argues that many takers are good at hiding their unpleasant side from potential benefactors... But that isn’t the entire story. It turns out that undisguised heelish behavior can often help you get ahead.2015 June, “Why It Pays to Be a Jerk”, in The Atlantic

Forms of heelish

comparativemore heelish
superlativemost heelish

Origin of heelish

From heel + -ish.

Questions about heelish

What does heelish mean?
Heelish means exhibiting the characteristics of a heel.
What part of speech is heelish?
Heelish is an adjective.

Words near heelish in the dictionary

  1. heeling
  2. heeling out
  3. heeling over
  4. heeling up
  5. heelings
  6. heelish
  7. heelless
  8. heellessness
  9. heelmaker
  10. heelmakers
  11. heelmaking

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