notebookish
adjEtymology From notebook + -ish.
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Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
- In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.1991, Stand Magazine, volume 33, page 56:
- So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.2004, Carmine Starnino, A Lover's Quarrel: Essays and Reviews, page 100: