"Conan-Doylish" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more Conan-Doylish [comparative], most Conan-Doylish [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} Conan-Doylish (comparative more Conan-Doylish, superlative most Conan-Doylish)
  1. Alternative form of Conan Doylish. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Conan Doylish
    Sense id: en-Conan-Doylish-en-adj-0nt5AyBE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1895 November 23, “Among the New Books”, in Portage Daily Register, volume VIII, number 224, Portage, Wis., front page, column 2:",
          "text": "A new romance, full of adventure and replete with wonderful “Conan-Doylish” strategy, is in our hands.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1908, Hume Nisbet, The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum, London: De La Roche, […], page 58:",
          "text": "I knew the book, and the part where his finger kept the place, for I have the habit of noting details as I go about the world—a sort of Sherlock Holmesy, Conan-Doylish gift, or trick, inherited doubtless from some Calvinistic forbear, I expect.",
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          "ref": "1951 autumn, Elio Gianturco, “Mario Soldati. A cena col Commendatore. […]”, in Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, Norman, Okla.: The University of Oklahoma Press, page 383, column 2:",
          "text": "Conan-Doylish ability characterizes this narration, which ends on a note of mellow, pre-eminently mature, human wisdom.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Australian Book Review, page 3:",
          "text": "Captain Chandler and Wynee Whiteford provide entertaining variants of the ‘time machine’ genre, with traditional Wellsian or Conan-Doylish eccentrics; […]",
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          "ref": "1994, J.K. Van Dover, You Know My Method: The Science of the Detective, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51:",
          "text": "[…] Anna Katharine Green invented Ebenezer Gryce, who comes somewhere between the Dickensian-Collinsian detective-in-a-story and the Conan-Doylish detective-in-a-detective-story.",
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          "ref": "1951 autumn, Elio Gianturco, “Mario Soldati. A cena col Commendatore. […]”, in Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, Norman, Okla.: The University of Oklahoma Press, page 383, column 2:",
          "text": "Conan-Doylish ability characterizes this narration, which ends on a note of mellow, pre-eminently mature, human wisdom.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1983, Australian Book Review, page 3:",
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          "ref": "1994, J.K. Van Dover, You Know My Method: The Science of the Detective, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51:",
          "text": "[…] Anna Katharine Green invented Ebenezer Gryce, who comes somewhere between the Dickensian-Collinsian detective-in-a-story and the Conan-Doylish detective-in-a-detective-story.",
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