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English
Etymology
From Chandler + -ish, after writer Raymond Chandler.
Adjective
Chandlerish (comparative more Chandlerish, superlative most Chandlerish)
- Resembling the work of author Raymond Chandler in style or theme
1973, The New York Times biographical service, volume 4, New York Times & Arno Press, page 1518:[…] Polanski has been completing with the writer Robert Towne the script for his new movie, a Chandlerish detective story of the thirties, "Chinatown" […]
1992 August 15, Billboard, volume 104, number 33, page 57:Broadbent's smoky, sultry originals "The Long Goodbye" and "Lady In The Lake" uphold the album's Chandlerish spirit.
- 1997 The BFI companion to crime, Volume 1997, Part 2, University of California Press, p44
- These include Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One (19867) which covers Bruce Wayne’s (and Jim Gordon’s) first weeks on the streets, in a Chandlerish tale of crooked cops and a rotten city