Don-Quixotic

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“To interfere⟳ in behalf of a woman so situated, would cast⟳ a sort⟳ of contamination on her; and therefore have⟳ the effect of Don-Quixotic interruption of the boy’s castigation from his master,—only redouble the stripes.”

“After waiting for fully three-quarters of an hour the Don-Quixotic looking individual who had received me announced himself as ready to show⟳ us the remaining parlors.”

“It was true that in the levities of her own⟳ infatuation, in the insolences of her sudden social triumph, she had showered upon the Don-Quixotic mentor of her girlhood, open⟳, cruel, and contemptuous slights.”

“A Don Quixote he lived, and a Don Quixote he died, according to Wasserman, who writes: “When he felt his last⟳ hour was near, he sent for a notary and witnesses, intending to cancel⟳ the will of 1498 and draw⟳ up another. It begins with the Don-Quixotic dictum: ‘As I am making a free gift of India to the King and Queen . . .’[…]””

“Of all of the inane, misdirected and Don-Quixotic editorials and cartoons you’ve ever run⟳ to knock⟳ down a strawman argument, your sophomoric pap about the introduction of Encore to cable viewers takes the cliche.”

“If I knew, at least, that you meant to write⟳ a fictional life of Zacharias Lichter, so be it! Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life.”

“But this Sancho Panza on the other hand represents the very mass of human nature that made the Don-Quixotic phenomenon of human existence possible in the first place⟳: […]”

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