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Definition of Cartoonish
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartoonish
Literary usage of Cartoonish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Actor-Families in America by Montrose Jonas Moses (1906)
"It is just this word "merry" that sums up the artistic life of Holland. His was
good-natured fun, grotesque, cartoonish at times, ..."
2. Teaching the Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12 by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
"However cartoonish, there must be some truth to this amazingly persistent
stereotype, or it wouldn't have lasted this long. And plenty of gray-haired ..."
3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... or sometimes I'd just wander in and sit there on the sidelines for a while
and watch, with quiet amusement, the dizzying, cartoonish goings on. ..."
4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"This is, even by his own bizarre standards, his oddest work yet—an absurd,
cartoonish fantasy about a man whose father is a mountain, ..."
5. The Literature of the South by Montrose Jonas Moses (1910)
"Bolus suggests an actor; he is not cartoonish, like Florence's Bardwell Slote or
Raymond's Mulberry Sellers, but he is more typical of the rich vein of ..."
6. Adventure Guides Italian Riviera: San Remo, Portofino & Genoa by Amy Finley (2006)
"Their proud features are marred by graffiti — cartoonish scribbles rendering
their expression more pathetic than fierce. They're an apt metaphor for the ..."
7. Barcelonaby Dan Colwell by Dan Colwell (2001)
"Their stylized Romanesque figures with elongated, cartoonish faces both pre-date
and transcend a naturalistic approach to painting— and the effect in, ..."
8. Adventure Guide to New Zealand by Bette Flagler (2005)
"These cheeky birds have no manners whatsoever. The cartoonish takahe was believed
to be extinct, but was re-discovered in the Murchison Mountains in 1948. ..."
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