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Lomanesque

Lomanesque adjective: characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.

Adjective

Lomanesque (comparative more Lomanesque, superlative most Lomanesque)

  1. Characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.
    • Renny works on the tenth floor and this morning she navigates the maze of cubicles like a well trained lab rat, her face set in a Lomanesque expression of one continuing to work long after the job has lost its excitement.2006, Sharon Kurtzman, Cosmo's Deli, page 12
    • Rather incredibly, Mills recommended that white-collar Americans adopt a kind of Lomanesque hopelessness and despair, as such a perspective at least acknowledged the unfortunate realities of being middle class in postwar America.2013, Lawrence R. Samuel, The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, page 26

Forms of Lomanesque

comparativemore Lomanesque
superlativemost Lomanesque

Origin of Lomanesque

From Loman + -esque.

Questions about Lomanesque

What does Lomanesque mean?
Lomanesque means characteristic of Willy Loman, an aging salesman in suicidal decline, in Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman.
What part of speech is Lomanesque?
Lomanesque is an adjective.

Words near Lomanesque in the dictionary

  1. Lomakema
  2. Lomami
  3. Loman
  4. lomandra
  5. lomandras
  6. Lomanesque
  7. Lomans
  8. Lomaomvaya
  9. lomaria
  10. lomarias
  11. lomas

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