nun
noun
a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
nunlike
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a word derived from
nun.
Example Sentences
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Michael Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch, a death-row criminal who’s executed before our eyes, only to be brought back to life by a beautiful scientist in flawless red lipstick and a nunlike hairdo.
From Time ● Dec. 19, 2016
Dickinson, the nunlike individualist, again filled the bill.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2010
A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was this gray-clad, nunlike figure the passionate, sensuous Carmen of Bizet’s masterpiece?
From The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory
Her poor worn face, nunlike under its white cap and with its look of renunciation, grew white in the keenness of her anguish.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
