toad-like

See also: toadlike

English

Adjective

toad-like (comparative more toad-like, superlative most toad-like)

1. 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.