zombyish

comparative more zombyish · superlative most zombyish

1. Resembling or characteristic of a zombie.

   What a superb device he can be, this boy. If anything, of course, he could for preference look even iller and more zombyish than he does. Anything for the cause.

   1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, part 3, pages 159–160

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   1972, Bruce Chatwin, letter to James Ivory dated March 1972, in Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (editors) Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, New York: Viking, 2011, p. 211, […] I just caught them in Paris on my way back from Dahomey. Seemed in very good form. They were with that zombyish creature called David Becker.