novelettish

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.

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Meanings

adjectivenovelettish (comparative more novelettish, superlative most novelettish)

comparative more novelettish · superlative most novelettish

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.

    Inevitably the period laid a few eggs, of which the most evil-smelling were […] three unfortunate views on war: […] novelettish “Five Branded Women”; […]

    1960 December 23, “Looking Back on 1960”, in Middlesex County Times and West Middlesex Gazette, Ealing edition, number 5882, Ealing, London, →OCLC, page 9, column 5

Origin

From novelette + -ish.

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Chicago

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