monkish

Example Sentences

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He also got to know, and soon took lessons from, Andrew Hill and Muhal Richard Abrams, leading avant-gardists of a Monkish bent.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017

To curb that behavior, Monkish began in September to release ales at unpredictable times, announcing them on social media with only a few hours’ notice.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2017

This is Monk at his most Monkish: essential stuff.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2012

The themes often move in unexpected directions, and Escreet peremptorily adds a Thelonious Monkish, note-prodding percussiveness to lines that seem at first to be unfolding with a methodically interweaving nu-jazz deliberation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010

A good Proof of the small Talent necessary for this Work is, that there hardly ever was an Author among these Monkish Antiquaries, but his Language was as barbarous as his Subject.

From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John