Dickensian

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• Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
• I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.
• Despite the Cotswold stone, Dickensian shopfront and flagstone floors, the books spilling out from every corner will bring you right back to the present. Independent bookshops in south-west of the UK
• Their names become adjectives: Dickensian, Shavian, Kafkaesque. The Nightmare Of Real Things
• Go back to Dickensian times with this immersive theatre experience. Times, Sunday Times
• The film has been called "Dickensian" -- and freely borrows from Indian film traditions, right down to its closing dance number.
• The Mission, aimed at pulling India's 63 cities out of their dilapidation, which is somewhat reminiscent of Dickensian London, is conditional upon a bunch of mandatory reforms. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
• The Dickensian committee system needs overhauling, as it can inhibit staff from doing their work. Times, Sunday Times
• Office Pike there's a Dickensian name for a thug cop, isn't it? waddled down the line of unresisting students and carefully sprayed an agonizing, blistering bio-weapon all over them. Doug Molitor: 12 Ways to Tell Occupy Wall St From the Tea Party (Doug's Dozen VIDEO)
• The overall impression, though, would make a cult novel: a picaresque trip through a neo-Dickensian netherworld of rogues and romance.