Meaning of Caponesque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a similarity to Al Capone.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Caponesque.
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3. Like a capon.

Examples

“[…] it seems that Bimbo had accused Nickolas of using Caponesque methods in an effort to usurp his kingdom, which included some 300,000 subjects in the United States at the time.”

“[…] a Caponesque terrorism with a tawdry kind of glamour, a meretricious appeal.”

“It is fair to say that those drawn to the paramilitaries shared a mixture of some or all of these characteristics: idealism, initiative, thrill-seeking, bravery, an urge to emulate their forebears, ruthlessness, Caponesque gangsterism, vindictiveness and psychopathy.·”

“Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.”

“All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.”

“Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.”

“They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.”

“The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.”

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