Definitions
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- adjective humorous Overly
professionalist ;palpably mechanical in execution - adjective Prone to using overly
cliché phrases in excess.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its format is newspaperish and it's content comes from a core group of staff writers and guest contributors which in the past has included Hillary Clinton, President Obama and John Cusack just to name a few.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Its format is newspaperish and it's content comes from a core group of staff writers and guest contributors which in the past has included Hillary Clinton, President Obama and John Cusack just to name a few.
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Also great is the use of cartoons in posts, turning clinical into a newspaperish style.
Drive-by-Shooting Sundays: The Antisocial Social Worker 2008
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As the current object of Jay’s fawning, I thought I’d offer some agreement and some disagreement without, I hope, being fawning myself or defensively newspaperish.
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Perhaps you'll enjoy hearing it while you wait -- it's really quite newspaperish. "
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884
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"I'm sorry if this post looks newspaperish? but I just felt there were things that needed clarification.
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"I'm sorry if this post looks newspaperish? but I just felt there were things that needed clarification.
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