Pritchett

[ prich-it ]

/ ˈprɪtʃ ɪt /

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noun

Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

[sawd-n], /ˈsɔd n/, 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.

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How to use Pritchett in a sentence

Your influences include William Trevor, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dickens, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, and Elizabeth Bowen.
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Julie Bowen already has won two Emmys for her performance as hilariously frazzled mom Claire Pritchett on Modern Family.
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A short-story writer (his “The Evils of Spain” could be read along with this book), Pritchett was a master of compression.
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There is no doubt that Gloria Pritchett is singular among TV characters, and Vergara is capitalizing on that.
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If you will ask Pritchett too, you will find that your father is not the best correspondent in the world.
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
Mr. Pritchett told him that his brother was better—considerably better.
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
Mr. Pritchett had a somewhat melancholy way of speaking of everything.
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
I'm sure, Mr. Pritchett, I'm very much obliged for the trouble you are at in telling me.
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
Most of the views given in this work are from sketches made on the spot by Mr. Pritchett, with Mr. Darwin's book by his side.
A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World|Charles Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for Pritchett

Pritchett

/ (ˈprɪtʃɪt) /

noun

Sir V (ictor) S (awdon). 1900–97, British short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and autobiographer; his works include Mr Beluncle (1951) and A Careless Widow (1989)

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