pseudo-hieroglyphic

[ soo-doh-hahy-er-uh-glif-ik, -hahy-ruh- ]

/ ˌsu doʊˌhaɪ ər əˈglɪf ɪk, -ˌhaɪ rə- /

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adjective

noting or pertaining to a script dating from the second millennium b.c. that appears to be syllabic and to represent the Phoenician language and that is inscribed on objects found at Byblos.

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How to use pseudo-hieroglyphic in a sentence

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Thankfully, the piece did not try to evoke the Internet through tired dance gestures or pseudo-digital music.
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So the real meat of Stalker, ostensibly, is the pseudo-intellectual conversation about misogyny.
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He lived in the Pseudo office, where his downstairs neighbors included Jeff Koons.
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He was busted but far from bust, and by February Pseudo had 10 channels.
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Not for twenty necklaces and a whole file of hieroglyphic passes would she doubt Frank any more.
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Moreover, the inscriptions on hieroglyphic rocks in these abandoned cities evidently refer to Amazons.
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The next source from which we learn anything of this part of the subject is the pseudo-Euclidean Introductio Harmonica.
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"We've very much obliged to you, Miss Fulton," Bristow said in his pseudo-pleasant way.
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In pseudo-angina, frequently observed in hysterical women, its action is all that can be desired.
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