Hogarthian
- a word derived from Hogarth.
Example Sentences
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This Hogarthian image may be a better predictor of what lies ahead than 10,000 words of analysis.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
My audience, by the way, was especially tickled by the satirical portrait of the show’s one major British character, King George III, embodied with Hogarthian nastiness by a divinely petulant Michael Jibson.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
Specialising in low-life morality tales and conjuring, with Hogarthian relish, a socially realistic world, his best work is more complete and less cloyingly sentimental than the vast majority of his better-known American counterparts.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
Though the colours are much faded from exposure to the weather, traces of Hogarthian humour can be detected.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
