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Example sentences from the Web for DickensianMusician and civil rights legend Harry Belafonte decried “our deeply Dickensian justice system.” A Tale of Two Bills: Clinton vs. De Blasio|John Avlon|January 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST We locked the gate behind us, opening it only to use the bathroom in the Dickensian Fire Station across the street. Uncovering Jamaica’s Jewish Past|Debra A. Klein|December 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST The passages about the poor and criminal sections of the city are very … Dickensian. Cathleen Schine’s Favorite New York Books|Cathleen Schine|July 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST Willimon felt that Frank Underwood as a name “felt Dickensian and more legitimately American” than Francis Urquhart. David Fincher, Beau Willimon & Kate Mara On Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’|Jace Lacob|January 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The look combines two disparate classes of the Dickensian world, shown in unison to cool effect. Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Armani: Charles Dickens’s Influence on Fashion Week|Misty White Sidell|March 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens|G. K. Chesterton He knew little of Dickens, but his first story is thoroughly Dickensian in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6|Various The Dickensian association is here a personal one, and somewhat thin at that. The Old Inns of Old England, Volume I (of 2)|Charles G. Harper At Powells the old Dickensian tradition was kept vigorously alive by every possible means. A Great Man|Arnold Bennett The work can be recommended as a book of pictorial reference for Dickensian students, but otherwise it is—ahem—superfluous. Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891|Various
adjectiveof Charles Dickens or his works (resembling or suggestive of conditions described in Dickens' novels, esp) - squalid and poverty-strickenworking conditions were truly Dickensian
- characterized by jollity and convivialitya Dickensian scene round the Christmas tree
grotesquely comic, as some of the characters of Dickens Words nearby Dickensiandicing, dick, dickcissel, dickens, Dickens, Charles, Dickensian, Dickens shunt, dicker, Dickerson, dickey, dickeybird Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |