Tom Sawyeresque
Tom Sawyeresque adjective: resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Tom Sawyer.
Adjective
Tom Sawyeresque (comparative more Tom Sawyeresque, superlative most Tom Sawyeresque)
- Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Tom Sawyer.
- Lin P'ei's mother warned him that though P'eng P'ai had no need to fear starvation, the Lin family was not so fortunate. P'eng claims that he bought some time against this threat by a Tom Sawyeresque ruse.1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, part 3, chapter 7, 149
- I had tried, as had his psychiatrist and several emotionally astute relatives and friends, to confront his stubborn suicidality by making his anger more conscious, by analyzing his irrational but understandable conviction that he was bad, by calling his attention to his wishes to pay his mother...1999, Nancy McWilliams, chapter 7, in Psychoanalytic Case Formulation, The Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 131
Forms of Tom Sawyeresque
| comparative | more Tom Sawyeresque |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Tom Sawyeresque |
Origin of Tom Sawyeresque
From Tom Sawyer + -esque.
Questions about Tom Sawyeresque
- What does Tom Sawyeresque mean?
- Tom Sawyeresque means resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Tom Sawyer.
- What part of speech is Tom Sawyeresque?
- Tom Sawyeresque is an adjective.
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