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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Theodor Seuss Geisel, "Dr. Seuss" (1904–1991), American writer and cartoonist best known for his imaginative children's books, often written in rhyme.

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Seuss +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Pair any of the collection's pieces with a stacked teacup lamp for a room that gives off a definite "Seussian" vibe.

    unknown title 2009

  • Max. Then you can choose a funky "Seussian" border treatment and add little stamps and doodads to complete your masterpiece.

    Cool Mom Picks 2009

  • Maybe it will, someday, but for now it is another way to interact with the world by telling it to others from your own perspective -- a kind of Seussian, "we are here" for journalists, too, who sometimes forget about all those Whos down in Whoville.

    unknown title 2009

  • Max. Then you can choose a funky "Seussian" border treatment and add little stamps and doodads to complete your masterpiece.

    Cool Mom Picks 2009

  • The combination of Mr. Staake's off-kilter drawings and Peter Stein's zippy, faintly Seussian rhymes is likely to please a certain subset of young, vehicle-loving and probably male readers.

    A Vintage Look for Picture Books Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • In a Seussian twist to the discovery, the tiny ecosystems discovered in this salt crystals seem to be able to maintain themselves, creating a microscopic, self-sustaining environment, according to LiveScience.

    34,000-Year-Old Life Found Still Alive The Huffington Post 2011

  • The other two aren't up to its standards but they are Seussian and that's that.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: New Christmas DVDs For Your Stocking Michael Giltz 2011

  • In a Seussian twist to the discovery, the tiny ecosystems discovered in this salt crystals seem to be able to maintain themselves, creating a microscopic, self-sustaining environment, according to LiveScience.

    34,000-Year-Old Life Found Still Alive The Huffington Post 2011

  • And not in the Kerouacian sense either, more like the Seussian sense of teaching kids about The Cat in the Hat.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • The Lorax Garden offers a child a way to personally fix the desolated world presented in The Lorax book by growing the missing Truffula trees and a wide variety of Seussian flowers.

    Kid apps become special on the iPad 2010

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