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Example sentences for: diminutive

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Pencil (as well as penicillin ) was borrowed from Latin pēnicillus `paintbrush,' a diminutive of peniculus `brush,' which is also a diminutive of penis , which in Latin (also) meant `tail.
Adding diminutive suffixes is often a disparaging tactic.
These include mod(r) and csul , each with an intron of 44 bp, and CG11892 , with a diminutive intron of 43 bp.
During the Watergate scandal President Nixon had to face an even more powerful combination, one that incorporated his own nickname in a double that ended with the negative diminutive - y . Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.
Bonnard had met the high-heeled, diminutive model for many of these paintings of nudes around 1893.