单词	Pickwickian
释义	Pickwickian /pɪkˈwɪkɪən / adjective 1Of or like Mr Pickwick in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers, especially in being jovial, plump, or generous.On the contrary, Carleton's hand-rubbing manner was Pickwickian in its joviality.... This is writing to savour; and the comedy takes on a decidedly Pickwickian flavour when Gerald later attends a village fête in his constituency, getting welly-throwing lessons from a ‘smart-alec socialist’ in ‘gold-rimmed glasses’. His Self-Portrait, seated at his easel, shows a prosperous Pickwickian figure. 1.1(Of words) misunderstood or misused, especially to avoid offence.Only by using the word in its most Pickwickian sense would I ever call myself a ‘young’ theologian.... When, as in the case of the lamb, the failure is brought about by the fulfilment of something else, then indeed God can be said in a Pickwickian way to have brought about the failure, but only because he brought about the fulfilment of the lion. This will create ‘unity’ in some Pickwickian sense understood only by liturgists.
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