Sundaylike
adjEtymology From Sunday + -like.
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Resembling or characteristic of a Sunday, especially in terms of the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.
- Hence the un-Sundaylike demeanor of the procession, for few towns hold it more unseemly to stand and stare at passers-by, especially on the Sabbath.1905, Harper's magazine:
- In riding through these counties, the stranger is painfully impressed with the Sundaylike stillness that everywhere prevails...1865, The Rebellion record: a diary of American events:
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- We drive sleepily into London along broad thoroughfares where to eyes fresh from New York the traffic seems sparse and Sundaylike.1947 September 29, LIFE:
- Synonyms
- Sundayish