BBC-esque

A form of BBCesque — Resembling or characteristic of the BBC.

Meanings

adjectiveBBC-esque (comparative more BBC-esque, superlative most BBC-esque)

comparative more BBC-esque · superlative most BBC-esque

  1. alternativeAlternative form of BBCesque.

    At WLRN Wagner's crisp BBC-esque tone dovetails with the highbrow fare of National Public Radio.

    2004 October 14, Carl Juste, “British in Miami wade in 'wa-der'”, in The Miami Herald, page 4C
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    With this approach to broadcasting, content, production and presentation styles that emerged along the vein of a BBC-esque style produced a particular approach and thinking that had to be employed in order to conform...

    2005, Rafael Oei, Riding the Bandwidth: Producing for Digital Radio, Marshall Cavendish Academic, →ISBN, page 28

    But now that we're all so much more sophisticated, only pedantic twits insist on absolute accuracy, which isn't accuracy anyway, but some BBC-esque imaginary accuracy that comes from the department of Fake Authenticity.

    2019 February 16, Lisa Armstrong, “How I found the secret to fuller looking lashes and brows”, in The Telegraph

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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