Aesopish

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1. Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables; Aesopian.

   I am feeling a little Aesopish today and hence this story.

   2002, Gaurav Sabnis, Vantage point

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   The Lucky One (1919) came to the stage several years later and was somewhat more serious in tone, being a character study of two brothers, one brilliant, one dull; of course, the tortoise won the race for the hand of the girl they both wanted in typically Æsopish fashion.

   1947, A History of Modern Drama, Ed. by Barrett H. Clark and George Freedley

   It sounds rather Aesopish. Talking snakes, one bad apple ruining it all. I'm not so sure.

   2011, William Huffhine, Confessions of a Christian Dropout