Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of work.

Etymologies

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work +‎ -like

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Examples

  • the hooker who took down New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, about her 'worklike' appearance in People versus her granny-style outfit for her Diane Sawyer interview.

    Guide to Midwestern Culture 2008

  • I suspect that probably counts as enough worklike stuff for thse days, though I am going to take a crack at fixing that poem tonight.

    Re: Book sale paypal payments... truepenny 2008

  • Sometime later, I find this person is an "art flipper"-he was trying to flip the worklike the housing market which we see what's happened there! and make a buck on it.

    "If You Love Something...Set It Free...." Zillabob 2008

  • Sometime later, I find this person is an "art flipper"-he was trying to flip the worklike the housing market which we see what's happened there! and make a buck on it.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Zillabob 2008

  • I speak of, they force to worklike horses; the toil they impose upon them, being much harder, then what they usually enjoyn unto the

    Bucaniers of America: 1684

  • There are many agencies that only think it matters if they just don’t say them at a particular room at worklike our agency, which puts cameras in the roll call room, but beyond that, nothing else is happening.

    Misogynistic Cops Gone Wild 2005

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