novelistic
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of novelistic
Example Sentences
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But in a reflection of the parents, the show largely ignores the kids until finally bringing them forward and attaining a novelistic quality that separates it from so many less-bingeable series.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Spend enough time there and I guarantee you’ll find yourself gaining almost novelistic insight into what your high school English teacher called “the human condition.”
From Slate • Apr. 26, 2024
The play is verbose, the plot is sluggishly novelistic and the operatic scale is indulgent.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
The narrative of the complaint, rendered in a lurid novelistic style and including lightly redacted text messages purportedly written by McMahon, takes the depravity of the story to new depths.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024
Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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