literary
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature.
quasi-literary
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a word derived from
literary.
Example Sentences
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Seen as a whole, the films, nearly all period pieces, have a drawing-room flavor, a quasi-literary puzzle-box aesthetic that gets tired over the course of nearly eight hours.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
It was the final stop on a quasi-campaign, quasi-literary tour for Charlie Crist, the one-term Republican governor of Florida who’d become a Democrat and declared for his old job.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2014
However great the writing – and the writing is addictively, breathtakingly great – you do have the sense of entering a quasi-literary version of The Jeremy Kyle Show.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013
Thatcher, in fact, leaves a quasi-literary legacy, much of it unintended, that's inescapable.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013
They were rather the productions of a rich amateur, who had leisure to indulge a quasi-literary taste, without any thought of joining the ranks of professed writers.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
