Fagin

[ US /ˈfeɪɡɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
    Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets
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How To Use Fagin In A Sentence

  • Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
  • Although referred to by the witness Police Constable Fagin during the course of her testimony the print out was not produced in evidence before me.
  • Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
  • After that we will discuss discontinued criminal of accomplices in the form of organizing offender, executor, fagin and accessory.
  • But Fagin sat silently by a dead fire, staring at the flame of a candle on the table beside him.
  • What saves the film, without doubt, is Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Fagin, which is brilliant.
  • Peter Sellers, who had wanted to play Fagin, had committed to other projects by the time production began and so Ron Moody, who had played the role on stage, reprised his performance.
  • The little ones can play in Fagin's Den, an area for preschoolers named after the gangmaster of the band of thieves in "Oliver Twist. Boing Boing
  • Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant.
  • As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could. Oliver Twist
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