Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.

Etymologies

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policeman +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Heavy steps on the grass behind them came closer, and Superintendent Yeo, most just if most policemanlike of policemen, came up round the tree to shake hands.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • Heavy steps on the grass behind them came closer, and Superintendent Yeo, most just if most policemanlike of policemen, came up round the tree to shake hands.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • For indeed his approach was too consistently policemanlike, it was too crafty; his advent hinted at a gross espionage, at a mind which was no longer a man's but a detective's who tracked everybody by instinct, and arrested his friends instead of saluting them.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • He was staring with a policemanlike expression at the tall man, who, after a vain attempt to ignore him, had eventually to turn away.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

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