Aesopish
English
Adjective
Aesopish (comparative more Aesopish, superlative most Aesopish)
- Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables; Aesopian
- 1947, A History of Modern Drama, Ed. by Barrett H. Clark and George Freedley:
- The Lucky One (1919) came to the stage several years later and was somewhat more serious in tone, being a character study of two brothers, one brilliant, one dull; of course, the tortoise won the race for the hand of the girl they both wanted in typically Æsopish fashion.
- 2002, Gaurav Sabnis, Vantage point:
- I am feeling a little Aesopish today and hence this story.
- 2011, William Huffhine, Confessions of a Christian Dropout:
- It sounds rather Aesopish. Talking snakes, one bad apple ruining it all. I'm not so sure.
- 1947, A History of Modern Drama, Ed. by Barrett H. Clark and George Freedley:
Alternative forms
- Æsopish
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