Examples of use of dwarfish
1. As poet Dahlia Ravikovitch wrote so wonderfully and ironically: "In the southern tip of the garden, where the sprinkler cannot reach, it‘s like Australia: dry, with dwarfish shrubs." In this case, the Israeli sprinkler has hit a non–dwarfish thicket of sensitivities, some of them local and some of them common to the global garden.
2. For a long time he hated the notion that he was a squat and hairy dwarfish person – the "vandalised garden gnome" – and was rather proud of his dapper dress and general appearance.