proverbial
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb.
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Yes, what a worthless child it is,—or rather, what an unproverbial sort of busy bee it has been, Bettie dear.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell