英语词汇“sub-dickensian”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(i) Prefixed to adjectives derived from personal names, forming adjectives designating a person who or thing which is similar to or characteristic of the person in question, but is in some way inferior, as sub-Dickensian, sub-Shakespearean, etc.

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1889 Academy 24 Aug. 115 There is a good deal of sub-Dickensian humour in Mr. Hilton's Bohemian sketches.

1891 Papers Manch. Literary Club 17 194 His poem might be described (if one may be pardoned for using somewhat affected language) as sub-Keatsian.

1914 N. Amer. Rev. June 941 I have seen a sentiment from Dr. Johnson which no free-born Anglo-American reader would remember for five minutes hoarded by these forlorn sub-Shakespearean creatures for five generations.

1934 E. Sitwell Aspects Mod. Poetry i. 18 Mr. Housman was followed by a school of poets, rather loosely held together by their sub-Wordsworthian ideals.

1959 Listener 5 Feb. 258/2 A laboured sub-Wodehousian straining after slapstick instead of farce.

1962 John o' London's 10 May 459/2 The opening has a sub-Chaplinesque quality.

1967 J. Philip et al. Best of Granta i. 16 Following the editorial come five sub-Miltonic stanzas.

1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 154 One prominent sub-Marxist ‘scientist’..is Herbert Marcuse.

1989 J. Stokes In Nineties 133 ‘The pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative’, runs the sub-Wildean epitaph.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 26/3 When asked to assess the grim price of the Iraq war, he ducks the task.., descending instead into sub-Churchillian rhetoric.

单词	sub-dickensian
释义	> as lemmas sub-Dickensian (i) Prefixed to adjectives derived from personal names, forming adjectives designating a person who or thing which is similar to or characteristic of the person in question, but is in some way inferior, as sub-Dickensian, sub-Shakespearean, etc. ΚΠ 1889 Academy 24 Aug. 115 There is a good deal of sub-Dickensian humour in Mr. Hilton's Bohemian sketches. 1891 Papers Manch. Literary Club 17 194 His poem might be described (if one may be pardoned for using somewhat affected language) as sub-Keatsian. 1914 N. Amer. Rev. June 941 I have seen a sentiment from Dr. Johnson which no free-born Anglo-American reader would remember for five minutes hoarded by these forlorn sub-Shakespearean creatures for five generations. 1934 E. Sitwell Aspects Mod. Poetry i. 18 Mr. Housman was followed by a school of poets, rather loosely held together by their sub-Wordsworthian ideals. 1959 Listener 5 Feb. 258/2 A laboured sub-Wodehousian straining after slapstick instead of farce. 1962 John o' London's 10 May 459/2 The opening has a sub-Chaplinesque quality. 1967 J. Philip et al. Best of Granta i. 16 Following the editorial come five sub-Miltonic stanzas. 1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 154 One prominent sub-Marxist ‘scientist’..is Herbert Marcuse. 1989 J. Stokes In Nineties 133 ‘The pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative’, runs the sub-Wildean epitaph. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 26/3 When asked to assess the grim price of the Iraq war, he ducks the task.., descending instead into sub-Churchillian rhetoric. extracted from sub-prefix < as lemmas
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