safeish en · ADJ
Etymology
From safe + -ish.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Somewhat safe.
Before 1914 Newport had been a fairly safe Liberal seat, and after 1945 it was a safeish Labour seat which fell to the Tories only in the 1980s heyday of Thatcherism.
1997, Chris Cook, John Ramsden, By-elections in British politics: