Chandlerish

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English

Etymology

From Chandler +‎ -ish, after writer Raymond Chandler.

Adjective

Chandlerish (comparative more Chandlerish, superlative most Chandlerish)

  1. 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