Citations:Seinfeldish

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English citations of Seinfeldish

Adjective: "characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character/star, Jerry Seinfeld"

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  • 1997, Nicole Arthur & Will Tizard, Frommer's Washington, D. C., by Night, John Wiley & Sons (1997), →ISBN, page 119:
    Washington's health clubs serve the gamut of American yupppiedom, from torture chambers of grunting macho macho men, to Seinfeldish singles scenes, to high-tech palaces for political trophy wives and their over-the-Hill hubbies.
  • 2001, Kurt Anderson, "Spectator: Are Beavis and Butt-head Arty?", Time, 23 June 2001:
    In TV the winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program, his genre, the entire medium).
  • 2002 January 24, Tennant Stuart [username], “Re: Anyone Ever Notice?”, in alt.tv.friends[1] (Usenet):
    The thing is Sarah, that these are six very good friends, where being less close is a relative term, and they feel at liberty to take quite a severe swipe at each other, without ever being too Seinfeldish.
  • 2005, Nancy Kelly, Ginny Blue's Boyfriends, Kensington Books (2005), →ISBN, page 44:
    I tried to look beyond that, but my Seinfeldish self reared its ugly head and all I could see were myriads and myriads of germs settling in all the little folds of the chewed gum.