monkish
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of monkish
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Festival organizers say they’ll have at least 350 choices on tap, including a variety of breweries that are not usually available in the Washington area, such as Toppling Goliath, the Alchemist, Threes, Monkish and Equilibrium.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2018
To curb that behavior, Monkish began in September to release ales at unpredictable times, announcing them on social media with only a few hours’ notice.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2017
This is Monk at his most Monkish: essential stuff.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2012
The themes often move in unexpected directions, and Escreet peremptorily adds a Thelonious Monkish, note-prodding percussiveness to lines that seem at first to be unfolding with a methodically interweaving nu-jazz deliberation.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010
Monkish skulls and other unburied bones, seen by the light of moccoletti, were to me nothing but forms of folly.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
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