televisionish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From television + -ish.
Adjective
[edit]televisionish (comparative more televisionish, superlative most televisionish)
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of television or a television show.
- 1985, Newsweek, volume 106, numbers 10-18, page 88:
- His straightforward, somewhat televisionish script benefits from the clean, classical directorial style of Czech-born, British-bred Karel Reisz ("The French Lieutenant's Woman").
- 2009, Jerome Baker, “The Thin Man's Disappearing Act”, The Collected Short Stories of Jerome Baker, Xlibris, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), 149:
- A shop that wasn't here before, an old Chinaman in a shop of oriental oddities—this is too televisionish to be true!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:televisionish.