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- adjective Resembling or pertaining to Gormenghast, an
enormous sprawling Gothic castle mired ininexplicable traditions , introduced in atrilogy of novels by Mervyn Peake (1911-1968).
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Examples
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Factor in ebooks, all these book blogs, and wisecracking interviewers, and the media landscape becomes nearly Gormenghastian.
Interview with Lorin Stein : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2010
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Those, for instance, whose castle rambles are not Gormenghastian but merely tedious.
Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah! 2009
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At last, Spoils recaptures that earlier weirdness, and the sense of being a bard from an alternative past, if not presiding over their unfathomable, Gormenghastian rituals.
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In my experience, admittedly limited to three females at present between the ages of 12 and 19, the texting and Facebooking is supplementary to a vast, almost Gormenghastian, structure of personal relationships.
Eye on Britain 2009
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