Dickens

[ dik-inz ]

/ ˈdɪk ɪnz /

noun

CharlesJohn Huf·fam,

[huhf-uh m] /ˈhʌf əm/, Boz,1812–70, English novelist.

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Dick·en·si·an

[dih-ken-zee-uh n] /dɪˈkɛn zi ən/, adjective

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Musician and civil rights legend Harry Belafonte decried “our deeply Dickensian justice system.”

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The passages about the poor and criminal sections of the city are very … Dickensian.

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The look combines two disparate classes of the Dickensian world, shown in unison to cool effect.

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But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan.

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He knew little of Dickens, but his first story is thoroughly Dickensian in character.

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The Dickensian association is here a personal one, and somewhat thin at that.

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At Powells the old Dickensian tradition was kept vigorously alive by every possible means.

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The work can be recommended as a book of pictorial reference for Dickensian students, but otherwise it is—ahem—superfluous.

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British Dictionary definitions for dickensian (1 of 3)

Dickensian

/ (dɪˈkɛnzɪən) /

adjective

of 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

British Dictionary definitions for dickensian (2 of 3)

dickens

/ (ˈdɪkɪnz) /

noun

informal a euphemistic word for devil what the dickens?

Word Origin for dickens

C16: from the name Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for dickensian (3 of 3)

Dickens

/ (ˈdɪkɪnz) /

noun

Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)

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