If you don't have anything to scale against, he doesn't look short at all.

A lot of us look short and fat while seated.

Kept my back to the house and tried to make myself look two inches shorter.

On the page the word looks short and almost banal.

When they do have the ball though, Liverpool look a little short of ideas.

This is not a great Springbok side, indeed sometimes it looks a little short of being good.

She didn't want her legs to look short and stumpy.

It did, however, have a huge clothes press, along with a bed that looked too short for him, a plain table and two chairs.

That might make us look insensitive and short on compassion.

He even looked shorter than last year, more shrunken within himself.