gargoylish

English

Etymology

gargoyle +‎ -ish

Adjective

gargoylish (comparative more gargoylish, superlative most gargoylish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.
   • 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45:

     […] out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man.

   • 1996, Daniel Quinn, The Story of B, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 56:

     B's gargoylish face twisted into a scowl that seemed half-serious, half-humorous.

   • 2010, Matt Cardin, “The New Pauline Corpus”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu's Reign‎^[1], DAW Books, →ISBN:

     I turn my eyes skyward and see the gargoylish figures still commanding the open air between the coiling columns of smoke.

Derived terms

• gargoylishness