Citations:penny-dreadfulish

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of a penny dreadful"

 * 1913 — Doris Egerton Jones, Pied Piper, George W. Jacobs & Company, page 254:
 * She has been quite penny-dreadfulish-sword-and-mask mysterious lately; she goes about with her lips pursed up and a sparkle in her eye.
 * 1933 — Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 250:
 * But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it.
 * 2009 — Jan Stuart, "Fiction Chronicle", The New York Times, 22 October 2009:
 * "Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.