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Compared with their Greekish forebears, they are far trickier affairs.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2012

Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arise, you humbled ones, jealous too long; Take off her Greekish marks of my poor service, Make ready her precious body to be tangled In clotted skeins of her affiliate province.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

His stubborn buckles, With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd, Shall more obey than to the edge of steel Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more Than all the island kings—disarm great Hector.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William