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ungypsylike

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ gypsylike.

Adjective

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ungypsylike (comparative more ungypsylike, superlative most ungypsylike)

  1. Not gypsylike.
    • 1966, Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka; Parable and Paradox, page 26:
      Only a very ungypsylike responsibility for one's own work could produce a prose which, in spite of its ambiguities, was as unadorned and translucent as his.
    • 2010, Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates:
      Richard had an ungypsylike ability to compare past and present situations, and he wished forlornly that old Amenophis Fikee hadn't disappeared, eight years ago; []