Adjective: hooksian
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hooksian |
| Superlative | most hooksian |
Sample Sentences
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The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […] [1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:]
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Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […] [2005, Carol Allen, Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000, page 110:]
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The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film. [2005, Paul Gormley, The New-brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema:]
Adjectives inflected like hooksian
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From hooks + -ian.