Meanings
comparative more gospely · superlative most gospely
- alternativeAlternative form of gospelly.
But too many of them are vague ballads, and too many are gospely, horn-section, jump-blues kitsch.
1994, SPIN - Jul 1994, page 741 more example
He turns R & B ribaldry into a polymorphously perverse 80s salaciousness; whatever gospely religiosity remains imbedded in his soul he has recreated into a sometimes sincere ("The Cross") but nonetheless suspicious amalgam of sex, love, death, masturbation, incest, wishful transsexuality, and voyeurism.
1988 September 23, Bill Wyman, “The world's most advanced rock star”, in Chicago Reader
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