Sundaylike

comparative more Sundaylike · superlative most Sundaylike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a Sunday, especially in terms of the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.

   In riding through these counties, the stranger is painfully impressed with the Sundaylike stillness that everywhere prevails...

   1865, The Rebellion record: a diary of American events

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   Hence the un-Sundaylike demeanor of the procession, for few towns hold it more unseemly to stand and stare at passers-by, especially on the Sabbath.

   1905, Harper's magazine

   We drive sleepily into London along broad thoroughfares where to eyes fresh from New York the traffic seems sparse and Sundaylike.

   1947 September 29, LIFE

   Synonyms: Sundayish