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Example sentences for: diminutive

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It is the diminutive form of vespa wasp, and was a nickname given to particularly ill-tempered individuals.
Merrill (Bob) chose the diminutive deliberately to avoid confusion with Merrill (Robert), though it's hard to see why anyone would think a fellow who makes his living singing Mozart and Verdi would go home at night and write "If I Knew You Were Comin', I'd've Baked a Cake."
One wouldn't want to characterize the diminutive, balding rock star as being (in Cole Porter's marvelous phrase) down in the depths on the 90 th floor, but a faint tinge of melancholy hangs in the air.
This church served Greek refugees in the 8th century, and the designation in Cosmedin is usually assumed to be connected with the Greek word kosmidion , diminutive of kosmos , meaning `embellishment.
Schettino , for instance, can be a diminutive of Francesco ; but it also translates as careless.