Mencken

[ meng-kuhn ]

noun

1. H(enry) L(ouis), 1880–1956, U.S. writer, editor, and critic.

Mencken

/ ˈmɛŋkən /

noun

1. MenckenH(enry) L(ouis)18801956MUSWRITING: journalistWRITING: literary critic H ( enry ) L ( ouis ). 1880–1956, US journalist and literary critic, noted for The American Language (1919): editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury, which he founded (1924)

Other Words From

• Menc·ke·ni·an [meng-, kee, -nee-, uh, n], adjective noun

Example Sentences

Hoosegow may not have improved on jail, Mencken pointed out, but was much more fun to say.

From Time

From H.L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by The Library of America.

From The Daily Beast

Copyright renewed 1969 by August Mencken and Mercantile Safe Deposit Trust Co.

From The Daily Beast

As H.L. Mencken wrote, “There is little in New York that does not spring from money.”

From The Daily Beast

It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.

From The Daily Beast

H.L. Mencken, admittedly a fast man with a hyperbolic comparison, thought him more profound than Henry James.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Mencken explains why the use of "sick" for "ill" is taboo in England, except among the very youngest Realists.

From Project Gutenberg

Mencken, p. 10, it is thus loftily described: "Catalogus per-rarus rarissimis libris superbiens."

From Project Gutenberg

Mencken, p. 10, it would appear that a third volume, containing translations of some MSS.

From Project Gutenberg

You are, let us say, the very epitome of the man Mr. Mencken and Mr. Lewis tell us about so charmingly.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been twice edited, by Mencken and by Riedel; both editions are said to be inaccurate.

From Project Gutenberg