Greek
adjective
of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
pseudo-Greek
-
a word derived from
Greek.
Example Sentences
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Nor was Alcestis improved by the Met's pseudo-Greek staging and top-heavy production featuring, among other banalities, steam puffing from Hades and two clumsy and amateurish ballets.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been so proud of its finery, its pseudo-Greek columns, and its rich furnishings.
From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by William Henry Lowe Watson
She was a lady rather past her first youth, but very handsome still, who floated about, leaving a general impression of pseudo-Greek draperies, gleaming arms and shoulders, sparkling jewellery, and equally sparkling smiles.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
It returns to the Greek or pseudo-Greek names of the heroic romance, and to its questionable device of histoires stuck like plums in a pudding.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Apart from the chroniclers of individual exploits, such as López de Ayala, Brantôme, and the others, they are wholly colourless, and either pseudo-Roman or pseudo-Greek.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
