1. Abel is a fortyish man with round unblinking eyes and a perfectly circular head.

2. A tender fortyish div or wid for companionship stroke marriage?

3. I reckoned him to be about forty-ish, a family man - a man of the world, so to speak.

4. He was tanned, fit-looking and fortyish, and had dark frizzy hair which might have been permed.

5. She looked fortyish and she wore a blueish dress.

6. In the inevitable lecture series that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight, fortyish prude.

7. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit.