Citations:televisionish

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English citations of televisionish

Adjective: "of, relating to, or characteristic of television or a television show"

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  • 1985, Deborah Eisenberg, "What It Was Like, Seeing Chris", The New Yorker, Volume 61, page 28:
    There was just a tiny moment when he saw Mother, but then he sat right down and explained, in a sincere, televisionish voice I had never heard him use before, that he wanted to see me once a month.
  • 1985, Newsweek, Volume 106, Issues 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!
  • 2009, Brian D'Amato, In the Courts of the Sun, Dutton (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    There was televisionish sound coming from a bright but deserted-looking break room, and I went in.
  • 2012, Michael Grant, BZRK, Egmont USA (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    Two little girls and Sadie—not Plath, Sadie—was[sic] coming over for dinner, and it was all strangely televisionish, not real.