weedlike
- a word derived from weed.
Example Sentences
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A farmer had been spraying a weedkiller, Roundup, on a few “volunteer” soft white wheat plants that had sprouted, weedlike, in a 125-acre field he was trying to leave fallow.
From BusinessWeek • Jun. 20, 2013
A perpetual pessimist, the Fed chief has for the past year been nipping at inflation he sees hidden in the economy's weedlike growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
This led to an erosion of pastoral values and encouraged the weedlike growth of indiscriminate commercialism and technology.
From Time Magazine Archive
It apparently aroused longings, and it probably laid the basis for resistances and resentments that later blossomed into weedlike abundance as he came in contact with real city life.
From Pan by Hamsun, Knut
