freshmanic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of freshmanic
Example Sentences
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Irredeemably sophomoric, even freshmanic, Orgazmo is a cheerful parable about how innocence can blunder into strange and dangerous territory and, with the help of Heavenly Father and some outrageous plot twists, conquer all.
From Time
I know where my daughter won’t be next summer. — hjcho August 5, 2010 1:21 pm I can’t decide whether this is sophomoric or freshmanic.
From New York Times
The Stunt Man is not so much sophomoric, with its implications of false sophistication, as it is freshmanic: the movie delights in the play of ideas and in its own unsuspected ability to play fast, loose and funny with them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I acknowledge that the movie's stabs at wit are not so much sophomoric as freshmanic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Junior Class had heard of our miraculous doings, and asserted with that peculiar dignity which should at all times excite terror and awe in the Freshmanic breast, that they would countenance no such proceedings.—Harvardiana,
From Project Gutenberg
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