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gospely en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gospelly.
    alt of gospelly
    • But too many of them are vague ballads, and too many are gospely, horn-section, jump-blues kitsch. 1994, SPIN - Jul 1994, page 74:
    • He turns R & B ribaldry into a polymorphously perverse 80s salaciousness; whatever gospely religiosity remains imbedded in his soul he has recreated into a sometimes sincere ("The Cross") but nonetheless suspicious amalgam of sex, love, death, masturbation, incest, wishful transsexuality, and voyeurism. 1988 September 23, Bill Wyman, “The world's most advanced rock star”, in Chicago Reader:

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more gospely Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most gospely Degree=Sup lexicographic