Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), American writer on themes of
alienation andoutsiderness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Salinger seems—in his parentheses-choked later works, at least—to believe he could never get as Salingerian as he wanted.
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All those stories have the quality of a Salingerian parenthetical.
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Not wanting to risk missing the delivery, and fearful that they'd simply dump the couch on my street, I stayed couped up in a Salingerian cave of reclusion.
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Munson named a character "Phoebe," but didn't recognize the name as Salingerian until his editor pointed it out.
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Munson named a character "Phoebe," but didn't recognize the name as Salingerian until his editor pointed it out.
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Munson named a character "Phoebe," but didn't recognize the name as Salingerian until his editor pointed it out.
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Munson named a character "Phoebe," but didn't recognize the name as Salingerian until his editor pointed it out.
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Munson named a character "Phoebe," but didn't recognize the name as Salingerian until his editor pointed it out.
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