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Sundaylike en · ADJ

Etymology

From Sunday + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a Sunday, especially in terms of the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.
   • We drive sleepily into London along broad thoroughfares where to eyes fresh from New York the traffic seems sparse and Sundaylike. 1947 September 29, LIFE:
   • Hence the un-Sundaylike demeanor of the procession, for few towns hold it more unseemly to stand and stare at passers-by, especially on the Sabbath. 1905, Harper's magazine:
   • In riding through these counties, the stranger is painfully impressed with the Sundaylike stillness that everywhere prevails... 1865, The Rebellion record: a diary of American events:

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Synonyms

Sundayish