stalkerish

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UK/ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivestalkerish (comparative more stalkerish, superlative most stalkerish)

comparative more stalkerish · superlative most stalkerish

  1. informalOf, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.

    His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.

    2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
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    “There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher. “I mean, something more than the usual. Something not of the undead family. A big, nasty something. I couldn’t see it clearly, but it was doing the menacing thing behind me. Stalkerish. And it, well, it giggled.”

    1999, Laura Anne Gilman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20

    They think it's weird. Some people think it's a cute weird in a quirky way, some a creepy weird in a stalkerish, he's hiding bodies in a barrel way.

    2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1

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APA

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Chicago

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