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English
Adjective
toad-like (comparative more toad-like, superlative most toad-like)
- Alternative form of toadlike
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 95:Heavy and toad-like the old ladies looked; some fluttering like poultry, others shrinking into their own thoughts.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.