Holmesish

comparative more Holmesish · superlative most Holmesish

1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

   But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One?

   1964, Books and Bookmen, volume 10, page 71

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   The environmental dimensions of energy production and consumption are, in fact, rarely out of the news — although one sometimes needs a Holmesish dedication to ferret out the evidence.

   1978 June 1, John Elkington, “Fuelling the EIA flame”, in New Scientist

   One reply to this is to say that we should count "Holmes might not have been a detective" as true just in case each Holmesish individual has a counterpart that is not a detective.

   1990, Gregory Currie, The Nature of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 140

   Synonyms: Sherlockish, Sherlocky, Sherlock Holmesque, Sherlock Holmesish, Sherlock Holmesy