witchlike

English

Etymology

witch +‎ -like

Adjective

witchlike (comparative more witchlike, superlative most witchlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 120:
      Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.
    • 2007 January 26, Stephen Holden, “Once Upon a Time in a Very Familiar West”, in New York Times‎:
      The second, Madame Louise (Anjelica Huston in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.
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