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Sherlock_Holmesish
Sherlock Holmesish
English
Adjective
Sherlock Holmesish (comparative more Sherlock Holmesish, superlative most Sherlock Holmesish)
- Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
- 1959, Emilie Loring, With This Ring, Bantam (1959), page 41:
- "When I found the letters with a name which matched the initials I felt very Sherlock Holmesish. […]
- 1976, Betty Beaty, Love and the Kentish Maid, Harlequin (1976), ISBN 0373019416, page 131:
- Sir Berkeley stroked his beard and looked Sherlock Holmesish.
- 2011, Delia Rosen, One Foot in the Gravy, Kensington Books (2011), ISBN 9780758274151, page 16:
- […] the mystery bash's hostess sported a pearl necklace with an appropriately Sherlock Holmesish magnifying glass pendant, […]
- 1959, Emilie Loring, With This Ring, Bantam (1959), page 41: