Frankensteinian

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Frankensteinian (comparative more Frankensteinian, superlative most Frankensteinian)

Of or pertaining to Mary Shelley's fictional Frankenstein, who created a monster from human remains.
- 1999, Niall Griffith, Peter M. Todd, Musical networks: parallel distributed perception and performance, page 313:
  But when, with Frankensteinian hubris, we dare to create an artificial system and imbue it with the spark of musical invention in our stead, how are we to assemble its constituent parts to ensure that its behavior will be on the whole pleasing and majestic […] ?
- 2022 June 2, A. O. Scott, “Are the Movies Liberal?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Moviegoing is no longer what it used to be, and the machinery that fed it is at present a Frankensteinian hybrid of tech, media, private equity and precarious labor.