Withnailesque

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Reminiscent of Withnail and I (1987), a British black comedy film about two young, unemployed, binge-drinking actors living in a squalid flat in 1960s London. rare

    "And seventy years later the last of Pentonville Road's original arch-windowed townhouses, two-million-quid jobs anywhere else, now wallowed in Withnailesque decay […]"

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"And seventy years later the last of Pentonville Road's original arch-windowed townhouses, two-million-quid jobs anywhere else, now wallowed in Withnailesque decay […]"

Etymology

Invented surname Withnail + -esque

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