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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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