caponesque

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Caponesque.

   Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.

   2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online

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   Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.

   2010 February 13, Michael Strangeways, “Let’s All Go To The Movies!”, in Seattle Gay Scene

   All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.

   2016, Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life, page 23

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1. Like a capon.

   The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.

   2012, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, page 173

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   They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.

   2011, Richard Girling, Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead

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1. Having a similarity to Al Capone.

   […] a Caponesque terrorism with a tawdry kind of glamour, a meretricious appeal.

   1978, Kate Caffrey, '37-'39: Last Look Round, page 16

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   […] it seems that Bimbo had accused Nickolas of using Caponesque methods in an effort to usurp his kingdom, which included some 300,000 subjects in the United States at the time.

   1969, Edith De Rham, How Could She Do That?: A Study of the Female Criminal, page 212

   It is fair to say that those drawn to the paramilitaries shared a mixture of some or all of these characteristics: idealism, initiative, thrill-seeking, bravery, an urge to emulate their forebears, ruthlessness, Caponesque gangsterism, vindictiveness and psychopathy.·

   2022, Matthew Engel, The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, 1952–79