Meaning of Doctor Watsonish | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“However, out of the miscellaneous collection on hand, the manager picked out one umbrella, tagged it with the Englishman’s name and laid it away for safe keeping. Upon the return of the traveler that umbrella was given him. It proved to be the right one. “How on earth could you tell it was his?” asked a Doctor Watsonish-kind of clerk with as much awe as if he were addressing Sherlock Holmes himself. “There was no possible way of identifying it.””

“There was an easy power in Maxwell Knights’ professor, but Reg. Hubbard, as Pickering, tended to be too much a secondary character, a Doctor Watsonish yes-man rather than a character in his own right.”

“We then apprehend our criminals by a process of deduction and elimination in the true Sherlock Holmes’ manner, although if the truth be known most of us, including our policemen, are more Doctor Watsonish, and not clear, incisive Holmes types.”

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