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- adjective Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
- adjective
morbid , especially in thevein of Edward Gorey
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though his senior yearbook bio reads in part, "art addict, romanticist, little men in raccoon coats," Gorey's drawings from this period don't look particularly Goreyesque.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The perfectly Goreyesque nom de plume Hyacincthe Phypps actually belongs to Mel Juffe, a veteran of Radio Free Europe, Eye magazine and The New York Post who died in 2005.
The Tale of the Deflowered Girl - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The perfectly Goreyesque nom de plume Hyacincthe Phypps actually belongs to Mel Juffe, a veteran of Radio Free Europe, Eye magazine and The New York Post who died in 2005.
The Tale of the Deflowered Girl - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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and yes, despite that, I think the next running away adventure should be better planned and more suitably Gothic. a Goreyesque train compartment, say, across desolate moors, an intrigue with the startlingly attractive yet oddly sinister porter, a bottle of absinthe for atmosphere if nothing else...
Beth runs away, gets stuck up a mountain in a wheelchair, comes home in ambulance Elizabeth McClung 2007
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