Greek
adjective
of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
Greekish
-
a word derived from
Greek.
Example Sentences
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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
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 William Shakespeare
Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead, Since first I saw yourself and Diomede In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
