"penny-dreadfulish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "penny dreadful + -ish",
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          "ref": "1913, Doris Egerton Jones, Pied Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 254",
          "text": "She has been quite penny-dreadfulish-sword-and-mask mysterious lately; she goes about with her lips pursed up and a sparkle in her eye.",
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        {
          "ref": "1936, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 250",
          "text": "But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it."
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          "ref": "2009 October 22, Jan Stuart, “Fiction Chronicle”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "\"Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a penny dreadful."
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          "ref": "1913, Doris Egerton Jones, Pied Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 254",
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          "text": "But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it."
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