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mummylike

a. Resembling a mummy (embalmed corpse) or some aspect of one.

Usage examples of "mummylike".

When he was properly mummylike in demeanor, which is to say stiff as a board, I carried him to the back room and wrapped him in the bandages, doing his arms and legs separately so he'd be more comfortable, and leaving just a trio of tiny holes for his nostrils and eyes.

The mummylike expanse of bandages robbed him of individuality, and his lips were so swollen they looked more like caricatures than the lips of the man she had once kissed, loved, married, fought with and fi­nally divorced.

It took a moment to spot Diana wrapped in overlapping bands of power and propped, mummylike, against the wall.

The Prince looked as he had at the Standing Stone, mummylike, aged beyond belief.

Millions, cushioned mummylike in CeramWrap, get shunted all over the city each day by truck, courier, or pneumatic tube.

Instead of heavy woven cloaks like the jawas wore, the sandpeople wrapped themselves mummylike in endless swathings and bandages and loose bits of cloth.