Thackeray
noun
William Makepeace 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
Thackerayan
-
a word derived from
Thackeray.
Example Sentences
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But this, which one hesitates to pronounce Thackerayan, was surely even trite.
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
Those devices of the satirist belonged to the sentimentalist mood of the Thackerayan epoch.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
They dissipate the Thackerayan fable that on the production of The Old Bachelor, the fortunate young author received a shower of sinecures, ‘all for writing a comedy.’
From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by G. S. (George Slythe) Street
