Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a character (in any sense).

Etymologies

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character +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Where series such as The Tudors cast impossibly handsome actors to portray historically homely monarchs, Empire relies on a character actor even more, ahem, "characterlike" than his real-life counterpart.

    Married to the Mob 2010

  • Messed up as living in a tenement walk-up could be, at least our buildings had characterlike pillars and sometimes stone-carved angels and stars decorating the stoops.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Messed up as living in a tenement walk-up could be, at least our buildings had characterlike pillars and sometimes stone-carved angels and stars decorating the stoops.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • Messed up as living in a tenement walk-up could be, at least our buildings had characterlike pillars and sometimes stone-carved angels and stars decorating the stoops.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

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