Meaning of Dr Watsonish | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.”

“Richard Davis drew a similar analogy in Films and Filming’s issue of July 1967, Walters’s “Dr Watsonish assistant” reminding him “irresistibly of Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles.””

“The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.”

“Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.”

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