unsmall

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1. humorousnonstandardNot small; large.

   Another option is to save receipts and obtain a refund at the airport, although the commission charged is unsmall.

   1993, Jonathan Taylor, editor, Let's Go: The Budget Guide to London, 1993, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 198

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   Bill parked at a drive-in beside a big Buick. Its lone occupant, an unsmall woman, looked over and down at the sardined Simea, and grinned broadly.

   1959 September 21, “Stories of the Week”, in Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, volume 88, number 3, Detroit, M.I.: Business News Publishing Co., page 1

   Jeremy Kagan, twenty-six, is proud owner of a Harvard degree (Phi Beta Kappa), a beard (brown and bushy), and an unsmall ego (amply justified).

   1973 January 30, Scott Kaufer, “A Mini-Versailles for Film Makers”, in World, volume 2, number 3, New York, N.Y.: World Magazine, Inc., page 87, column 2

   The voltage may be only a few hundred mV, but a thermocouple can deliver lots of current. Your preconceived notion that unsmall voltage is required to drive electromagnetic devices is wrong. In fact, solenoid coils can be configured for a wide range of voltages by changing the wire guage and turns count.

   2000 March 21, Larry Brasfield, “Magnified Sunlight”, in alt.energy.homepower (Usenet)

   Procol Harum, who never got their royalties for 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' — they were swizzed out of an unsmall fortune — might be forgiven for wanting to cash in on the pop memory boom.

   2012, Henry Scott-Irvine, Procol Harum: The Ghosts of a Whiter Shade of Pale, London […]: Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 205