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comparative more echt, superlative most echt
Proper, real, genuine, true to type. quotations examples
I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8
And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet)
An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .
2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times