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- adjective Of or pertaining to Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.
Etymologies
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Hemingway + -an
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Examples
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On July 21, his 100th birthday, Scribners will bring out the last of his major unfinished manuscripts: a fictionalized memoir of his 1953 African safari, edited by his middle son Patrick, 70, who's given it the plausibly Hemingwayan title "True at First Light."
Resurrecting Papa 2008
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Almost Hemingwayan in its simplicity and taut sentence structure.
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Thus one must not assume that Hemingwayan spartanism is the only desirable mode, unless one is ready to indict T.S. Eliot,
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