sirenic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- sirenically adverb
Etymology
Origin of sirenic
Example Sentences
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It’s sirenic, a call to blindness, a “happy” filter placed on a world that is often good but frequently not.
From Newsweek
One instinctively pictures a svelte form, a "face that launched a thousand ships," and all the rest of the sirenic paraphernalia that instinctively attach themselves to one's mental vision of a wholesale fracturer of hearts.
From Project Gutenberg
It causes the naturalist much amusement to watch the habits of this pretty little Owl, that, perched perfectly motionless on a branch, utters such a sirenic cry as to attract little birds in great numbers.
From Project Gutenberg
He hands the patron a ticket marked 45 and at the same instant screams in a sirenic and incredulous voice, "Fawty-fi'."
From Project Gutenberg
Yet day by day he had fought back that sirenic call.
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