penny-dreadfulish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a penny dreadful.
Example Sentences
- "She has been quite penny-dreadfulish-sword-and-mask mysterious lately; she goes about with her lips pursed up and a sparkle in her eye."
- "But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it."
- ""Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess."
Etymology
From penny dreadful + -ish.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more penny-dreadfulish (comparative)
most penny-dreadfulish (superlative)