Trollope
noun
Anthony, 1815ā82, English novelist.
Trollopean
-
a word derived from
Trollope.
Example Sentences
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Friss illustrates, without quite articulating, the central Trollopean social insight: like-minded people with similar passions typically end up fighting among themselves far more than they do with their class or intellectual opponents.
From The New Yorker ā Oct. 5, 2015
Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote.
From Time Magazine Archive
The base of this living pyramid is an English village near the Trollopean cathedral town of Barchester; the village is Stilbourne, appropriately named, since it encloses so many deformed and abortive lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a good caricature of this in an American book, I forget its title, written some time ago, to show the simplicity, gullibility, and vindictivness of our Trollopean travellers.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
