novelettish
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Luminous and bold, elegant and elliptical, epic and novelettish, Cather's story reflects the paradoxes of the small town on the wild prairie of its setting, and of its pioneering author.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2013
I didn't enjoy Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, which I thought structurally defective and basically novelettish.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012
He says that his output as a writer began to suffer the moment she appeared to him: "You've ruined my work from the start, with your utterly banal, pifflingly novelettish ideas."
From Time Magazine Archive
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