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Hemmingwayesque

  1. Misspelling of Hemingwayesque.
    • 1973, Frank Wayne Fox, Advertising and the Second World War, page 203:
      Or a father reliving in sparse, Hemmingwayesque prose his moment of horrible truth: The news almost killed his mother.
    • 1997, Globe Pequot Press, Kirsten Ellis, New Zealand, page 58:
      His Hemmingwayesque eulogy of the Bay of Islands, Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, helped confirm the region's reputation and establish its following.
    • 2008, Craig Maddox, Robbie, page 248:
      I explained to her in my best stage whisper that I had been seriously wounded in the war, and I was now more a Hemmingwayesque embittered celibate than a swinging dick.