madonna-like
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the Virgin Mary.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of American singer-songwriter and actress Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone; born 1958).
Example Sentences
- "My compartment was full and included a young woman of Madonna-like face (Jesus’ mother, not the singer) and wistful eyes—a sorrowful, haunting, beauty."
- "Instead of letting her husky Madonna-like voice and the band’s accessible pop tunes carry the show, she [Louise Reny] worked the crowd like a Las Vegas comic, repeatedly asking fans to dance and clap."
- "Hester (“the Molester”) progresses from an exploited and exploiting child to a hippie folk singer to a Madonna-like pop singer who inverts the Virgin Mary imagery of the novel [A Prayer for Owen Meany] and who, like all the strong Wheelwright women, always behaves on her own terms."
- "By the year 2000 Britney [Spears] was undergoing a Madonna-like reinvention that began with a flesh-colored outfit for MTV that made her appear nearly nude, and a skin-tight red catsuit for her video Oops!…I Did it Again."
- "To the cynic for whom everything is about money and nothing about sincerity, [Bruce] Springsteen’s evolving styles might be confused as Madonna-like attempts calculated for commercial appeal—except Springsteen’s directions have almost always gone against the grain."
- "Typically Rolling Stone magazine’s feature asking “Who’s to Blame?” for “blocking progress on global warming” had the old stager Rupert Murdoch still sitting Madonna-like at Number One in its chart after all these years."
Etymology
From Madonna + -like.