monkish
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His voice carries along a line of “nazarenos,” or penitents, with tall conical hats, monkish robes and facial hoods.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
The cloister of a dozen monkish editorial staffers he inherited from his brilliant predecessor, Meg Greenfield, grew to more than 80 multimedia thinkers by the time of his death.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
I made one decision about a secret romantic life, but when the scene was dropped, I kind of went back to Luke’s monkish ways.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2021
It all had the monkish purity of form, rigor and lack of extraneous froufrou that defined Balenciaga in the first place, powered by the pull-the-walls-down forward momentum that marks Mr. Gvasalia’s work.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2021
During that final year in Atlanta, Chris had lived off campus in a monkish room furnished with little more than a thin mattress on the floor, milk crates, and a table.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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