Thackerayan
- a word derived from Thackeray.
Example Sentences
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Those devices of the satirist belonged to the sentimentalist mood of the Thackerayan epoch.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
The objects of his admiration are mean; and since he meanly admires them, he comes quite naturally under the Thackerayan definition of a Snob.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various
Any Thackerayan could have completed the plot of Denis Duval; except indeed that a really sympathetic Thackerayan might have had some doubt as to whether there was any plot to complete.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
But as long as the Thackerayan platform of gentility stood firm all this was, comparatively speaking, concealed.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
