Meaning

Characteristic of or similar to New Wave..

Example Sentences

Despite the really stupid name, this marginally new-wavish quartet has its moments: a silly slowed-down mess-around on "Rebel (She's A)," and some solid hooks in the originals, even a moderately interesting "Pictures of Lily" update, "Poster Girl."

Barbie has been painted by many young new-wavish artists who definitely project her as a symbol of their past.

Many of the giants of the past seemed to lose their footing a bit as they tried to keep in step with a new era; sometimes they disappeared into new identities (the slick, new-wavish David Bowie of Let's Dance, for example), or, as in Morrison's case, they simply cleaned the slate and followed a new muse.

Thing is, we're-all-in-this-together is not a particularly punk-rock concept, at least in the world's-forgotten-boy sense originally conceived by Iggy Pop, who in 1986 made a blah album called Blah-Blah-Blah (see Animal's jarring and lucrative 3OH!3 collaboration), and who calls Ms. Sebert a “wild child” (a few cuts after she calls herself the same) in Warrior's “Dirty Love”—which is, well, even more diverting than her adequately new-wavish duet on an Alice Cooper album last year.

Word Forms

• more new-wavish
• most new-wavish

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Use new-wavish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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