Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conan-doylish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: co-nan--doylish
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of Conan Doylish.

Example Sentences

"A new romance, full of adventure and replete with wonderful “Conan-Doylish” strategy, is in our hands."
"I knew the book, and the part where his finger kept the place, for I have the habit of noting details as I go about the world—a sort of Sherlock Holmesy, Conan-Doylish gift, or trick, inherited doubtless from some Calvinistic forbear, I expect."
"Conan-Doylish ability characterizes this narration, which ends on a note of mellow, pre-eminently mature, human wisdom."
"Captain Chandler and Wynee Whiteford provide entertaining variants of the ‘time machine’ genre, with traditional Wellsian or Conan-Doylish eccentrics; […]"
"[…] Anna Katharine Green invented Ebenezer Gryce, who comes somewhere between the Dickensian-Collinsian detective-in-a-story and the Conan-Doylish detective-in-a-detective-story."

Inflected Forms

more Conan-Doylish (comparative) most Conan-Doylish (superlative)

Questions

What does conan-doylish mean?: Alternative form of Conan Doylish.

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