Example Sentences

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He has recovered from the tumor described in Cancer Ward, but retains an almost peasantlike distrust of modern medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her thick-brogued, almost blatantly peasantlike Joan was all drive and no dreaminess.

From Time Magazine Archive

A parade of slow-moving, sheaf-waving dancers, moreover, suspiciously resembles the static, peasantlike figures in Robbins' own Watermill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so, the writing sometimes fails it: before the story gathers momentum, it often seems more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her skin was lightly tanned, and she looked strong, but not at all peasantlike.

From A Voyage to Arcturus by Lindsay, David