witchlike

comparative more witchlike · superlative most witchlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a witch.

   The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.

   2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times

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   Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 120

   Catholic polemicist Nicholas Sander's De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, first published in 1585, had gone through its sixth European edition in 1610: this work promotes a perception of Anne as witchlike, detailing her prodigious promiscuity as well as her physical disfigurements (Warnicke 247).

   1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 102 of 89–118

   Synonyms: witchish, witchly, witchy, magicianlike, magicianly, magiciany, weird, witchish