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- adjective Like or resembling the German people, their language, or their culture;
Germanish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Second, the other countries can engineer German-like productivity miracles through structural reforms while Germany, relatively speaking, stands still.
The Euro Zone's German Crisis Alan S. Blinder 2011
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Then the American secretary of the Treasury came to Berlin early last summer and said the U.S. might want to make its fiscal policy more German-like by focusing on growth-friendly deficit reduction.
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We have begun looking for a new sport-utility vehicle or station wagon that would give us a similar German-like drive.
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The Red Guards were massing forces in the upper part of the valley and, German-like, had sent notice of their impending advance to recapture the city of Onega.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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I did not wonder when I saw them that we could not get coal, or other necessities of life, but it was not until I read of the very German-like idea of defending one's self on the property of other people that I realized what all that material meant, and that the Allies were prepared for even this tragic and Boche-like move.
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890
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Taritai -- disliked him for his domineering German-like manner, and his contemptuous disregard of their feelings, whilst I was _persona grata_ with them from the day I landed.
The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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Many a romantic story of him had I listened to around the blazing campfire -- many a tale of German-like _diablerie_, in which the white horse played hero.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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German-like quality, it seems, which goes down well with van Marwijk.
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It's not anti-Semitism to question why an American senator has a bigger focus on Israel than America, or to question why an American senator (or for that matter any Jew) would support German-like ghettos in modern times.
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It's not anti-Semitism to question why an American senator has a bigger focus on Israel than America, or to question why an American senator (or for that matter any Jew) would support German-like ghettos in modern times.
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