tabloidlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a tabloid newspaper; lowbrow and sensationalistic.
Example Sentences
- "While its subject means that “Listen to Me” is easy to like, Mr. Riley’s shaping of Brando’s words can make the movie, every so often, difficult to fully embrace. Mr. Riley’s handling of the fatal 1990 shooting of Dag Drollet by Christian Brando, Brando’s son, is especially unfortunate, and the use of some tabloidlike news material sleazes up the movie a touch."
Etymology
From tabloid + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tabloidlike (comparative)
most tabloidlike (superlative)