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adj. - In the manner of the French novelist and critic.

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Usage examples (8)
  • One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton
  • Goncourtian and Zolaesque principle to the lowest terms of the absurd.
  • If this were one of those realistic Zolaesque stories I would describe the crick in the back that -- but let us hurry on.
  • Cobbettist Apocalypse, smeared with Zolaesque grime and lighted up with flashes, or rather flares, of more than Zolaesque brilliancy.
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