"gargoylish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "gargoyle + -ish",
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          "ref": "1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45",
          "text": "[…] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man."
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          "ref": "1996, Daniel Quinn, The Story of B, Bantam, published 1997, page 56",
          "text": "B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous.",
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          "ref": "2010, Matt Cardin, “The New Pauline Corpus”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu's Reign, DAW Books",
          "text": "I turn my eyes skyward and see the gargoylish figures still commanding the open air between the coiling columns of smoke.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle."
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  "word": "gargoylish"
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  "etymology_text": "gargoyle + -ish",
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          "ref": "1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45",
          "text": "[…] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man."
        },
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          "text": "B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous.",
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          "text": "I turn my eyes skyward and see the gargoylish figures still commanding the open air between the coiling columns of smoke.",
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