Zelig-like

Adjective

Zelig-like (comparative more Zelig-like, superlative most Zelig-like)

1. Having an extremely flexible, inconsistent or polymorphic character.
   • Allen's one-liner reveals that he thinks there is something Zelig-like in himself, increasing the intrigue that this human chameleon offers.2019, Jill Franks, Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin: Little Men, Big Auteurs
   • Ideal agency would exhibit determination in any environment whatsoever; sometimes it would have to do so through Zelig-like polymorphism, so we should not be using ideal agency as our reference point when we are trying to understand the bounded agency we encounter in real life.2022, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency, page 73
2. Synonym of Zeligesque.
   • My grandfather turns up, Zelig-like, somewhere in the background of so many historic photographs and documentary film clips that sometimes I would ask myself whether the obscure but unavoidable ubiquity of his curriculum vitae in the history of the last century did not suggest a notewothy, albeit...2005, Stephan Wackwitz, Stephen Lehmann, An Invisible Country, page 38
   • Zelig-like, Nabokov shows up in Paris during the twenties, In New York and Philadelphia in the thirties, in wartime Washington and postwar Germany, in Paris again in the fifties, and in Berlin once more at the height of the Cold War.2019, Chandler Carter, The Last Opera, page 33

   Synonyms:

   Zeligesque