Jewlike

comparative more Jewlike · superlative most Jewlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a Jew, especially (derogatory) the stereotype of a profiteering miser.

   Jewlike, the Jesuits have insinuated themselves into every level of society.

   1996, Howard L Malchow, Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain

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   His charges are ten dollars for best Wellington boots; there are a number of native workmen, who sell, Jewlike, for just such prices as they can...

   1838, John Steuart, Bogotá in 1836-7

   Markoff, it appeared, said Radnor, "nosing around, Jewlike, to find some stuff that people would buy," had discovered, in London, a thirst for brewing...

   1906, Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul