Meanings
comparative more McDonaldsesque · superlative most McDonaldsesque
- alternativeAlternative form of McDonaldesque.
At $1.75 it was the best deal, because instead of a McDonaldsesque square of ground-up fish, you got an actual fillet that extended beyond the ends of a hot dog bun.
2001, Tim W. Brown, Left of the Loop, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1364 more examples
Moreover, in current global exchange structures, whether they are McDonaldsesque or Disneyesque or instead derive from worthy indigenous roots, cultural communities and values disperse only as widely as their reach permits them too,^([sic]) and worse, are routinely drowned out by other communities with larger megaphones who impinge on them.
2001, Z Magazine, page 51[…]; and in 'This Spud's for You,' a chemical is added to growing potatoes so that the fries sold at the McDonaldsesque 'Burpo Burger' will transform consumers into forgetful and clumsy geriatrics.
2004 August 2, Christine Holmlund, Justin Wyatt, Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream, Routledge, →ISBN, page 119The hybridizing of US country music with other forms – a kind of indigenization also familiar to scholars of global culture – contributes to the notion of the transnational rural without suggesting a McDonaldsesque ‘McCountry’ homogeneity (the kind of criticism usually levelled at country music mega-stars such as Dolly Parton or Shania Twain; Jensen, 1998).
2006, David Bell, “Variations on the rural idyll”, in Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden, Patrick Mooney, editors, Handbook of Rural Studies, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 155For a look at how those “other” tourists are spending their vacation, let’s pay a quick visit to the Fort Street Tourism Village, a McDonaldsesque walled compound where the tender boats from the cruise ships dock.
2009, Charlie Morris, Open Road’s Best of Belize, Open Road Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 73
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