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adj- Suitable for or resembling a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.

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  • In a blog post, Blum derided Google for engaging in a "a spy-novelesque stunt."
  • In a blog post, Shum called Google's trap "a spy-novelesque stunt."
  • "What we saw in today's story was a spy-novelesque stunt to generate extreme outliers" in some search rankings, he said.
  • It was quite characteristic of that memorable evening (that is quite novelesque, I think) that my interview with Jimmy should have a sensational ending.
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