˜yĐÄvlog

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-esque

  1. an adjective suffix indicating style, manner, resemblance, or distinctive character:

    arabesque; Romanesque; picturesque.



-esque

suffix forming adjectives

  1. indicating a specified character, manner, style, or resemblance

    Romanesque

    Chaplinesque

    statuesque

    picturesque

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -esque1

< French < Italian -esco â‰Ș Germanic; -ish 1
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -esque1

via French from Italian -esco, of Germanic origin; compare -ish
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Example Sentences

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An underappreciated aspect of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was an absence of something that defined his 2016 and 2020 campaigns: constant Gossip Girl–esque internal drama spilling into hourly push alerts.

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I was really inspired by the concept of surveillance, as well as the idea of being perceived and how we grapple with the contradictions and paradoxes of that, which is very “Quantum Baby”-esque.

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You can practically see the stress falling away from theatergoers as they become putty in the hands of these cunning troupers, who are finding laughs in every corner of this “Odd Couple”-esque comedy, scheduled to run through Dec. 15.

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Likely no one could have expected that Ron Howard’s “Eden” would be as straight-up demented as what was revealed in a prime spot at the festival, a based-in-reality “Survivor”-esque tale of a group of Europeans attempting to settle on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos in the 1930s.

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Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as married assassins in Prime Video’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” an “Atlanta”-esque reworking of the theatrical feature that famously starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

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