How To Use Dickensian In A Sentence
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Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
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I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.
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Despite the Cotswold stone, Dickensian shopfront and flagstone floors, the books spilling out from every corner will bring you right back to the present.
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Their names become adjectives: Dickensian, Shavian, Kafkaesque.
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Go back to Dickensian times with this immersive theatre experience.
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The film has been called "Dickensian" -- and freely borrows from Indian film traditions, right down to its closing dance number.
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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.
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The Dickensian committee system needs overhauling, as it can inhibit staff from doing their work.
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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.
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The overall impression, though, would make a cult novel: a picaresque trip through a neo-Dickensian netherworld of rogues and romance.
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Take your pick from carol concerts with seasonal readings, Christmas revues, Dickensian productions of A Christmas Carol and Victorian music hall.
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There is also an undersea walk, which you do without an aqualung, by wearing a heavy glass and metal contraption like a Dickensian carriage lamp over your head, which makes you sink to the seabed.
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It is Ruskin's contention that the essential Dickensian hero is the ironmaster.
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They had a Dickensian air with enormous dormitories and little privacy.
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He also had a Dickensian gift for evoking the same feeling in others.
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The Dickensian committee system needs overhauling, as it can inhibit staff from doing their work.
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Pip pip: A suitably attired stallholder at Ulverston Dickensian Festival.
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He also had a Dickensian gift for evoking the same feeling in others.
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Edinburgh's cobbled streets and wynds were perfect for scenes in the Julia Roberts-starring Jekyll and Hyde variation Mary Reilly, and were the setting for ITV's Dickensian Christmas extravaganza, Micawber, starring David Jason.
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The humor of this passage is also typically "Dickensian": observant, tolerant of eccentricities, and devastating all at the same time.
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It's worth a look if only for its very British, near-Dickensian combo of squalor, social comment and comic grotesquerie.
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Together they exposed the plight of the elderly, the grinding poverty experienced by the urban underclass and the Dickensian horrors of the conditions in some mental hospitals.
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The atmospherics are a very Dickensian prelude to some imminent human violence in Martin Chuzzlewit, published in 1844.
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The Dickensian committee system needs overhauling, as it can inhibit staff from doing their work.
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They knew that, like the Dickensian waif, a good wash and new clothes would reveal an angelic face.
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These Dickensian references merely underline a streak of contrivance in the plot.
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Fresh of face and louche of manner, they are equal parts Dickensian urchins and Wildean dandies.
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If Janeites tend towards punctiliousness, Dickensians have a penchant for the jocose.
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Speaking with a Dickensian cockney brogue is pushing things a bit.
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Much as I'm a fan of Victoriana, I draw the line at Dickensian chops.
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Living conditions can be Dickensian, and grueling six-day work weeks leave little time for anything else but sleeping, eating and doing the laundry.
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The bathrooms in this hotel are positively Dickensian - no hot water and grime everywhere.
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But not the villagers who rush around madly in Dickensian mode.
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