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- adjective Resembling a
monk or some aspect of one.
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Examples
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Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place.
Factory Girls: Summary and book reviews of Factory Girls by Lesley Chang. 2008
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Bin Laden also has been preparing for life on the run for decades, adopting a lifestyle of monklike detachment from material comforts.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Bin Laden also has been preparing for life on the run for decades, adopting a lifestyle of monklike detachment from material comforts.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Bin Laden also has been preparing for life on the run for decades, adopting a lifestyle of monklike detachment from material comforts.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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She speaks of Goodwin's "sophisticated mind" and "monklike discipline," recalling that the first time she directed him - in Gilles Segal's drama "The Puppetmaster of Lodz" in the early 1990s - the actor not only mastered puppetry but took to lugging one of the production's key manikins home every evening in a green garbage bag.
A challenging role for a complex thespian Celia Wren 2011
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Bin Laden also has been preparing for life on the run for decades, adopting a lifestyle of monklike detachment from material comforts.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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They crossed under an oil painting of monklike men at an ornate table.
Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010
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They crossed under an oil painting of monklike men at an ornate table.
Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010
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Remember my clean, uncluttered, monklike apartment?
The Opposite of Me SARAH PEKKANEN 2010
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"There is something monklike about Merwin," Gioia said.
W.S. Merwin, Hawaii-based poet, will serve as 17th U.S. laureate 2010
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