Shakespearean
adjective
of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
pseudo-Shakespearean
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a word derived from
Shakespearean.
Example Sentences
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I desperately miss the pseudo-Shakespearean dialectical wrangles and the exhilarating sense of CGI discoveries that mark George Lucas’s last forays into the franchise.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2017
He’s a pseudo-Shakespearean devil, a cunning exploiter of defects.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2016
If characters are alternately speaking in pseudo-Shakespearean gibberish and emitting ferocious GRAWWWWWs, your child is watching “Spartacus.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013
Haley is an interesting fellow, an Academy Award nominee who tries to invest the character with a combination of bulldog-fireplug tenacity and pseudo-Shakespearean villainous darkness.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2010
After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish."
From Time Magazine Archive
