Waugh

[ waw ]

noun

1. Alec Alexander Raban, 1898–1981, English novelist, traveler, and lecturer (son of Arthur, brother of Evelyn).
2. Arthur, 1866–1943, English literary critic, publisher, and editor (father of Alec and Evelyn).
3. Evelyn (Arthur St. John), 1903–66, English novelist, satirist, biographer, and author of books on travel (son of Arthur, brother of Alec).
4. Frederick Judd, 1861–1940, U.S. painter and illustrator.

Waugh

/ wɔː /

noun

1. WaughEvelyn (Arthur St John)19031966MEnglishWRITING: novelist Evelyn ( Arthur St John ) (ˈiːvlɪn). 1903–66, English novelist. His early satirical novels include Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934), and Scoop (1938). His later novels include the more sombre Brideshead Revisited (1945) and the trilogy of World War II Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1961)
2. WaughMark (Edward)1965MAustralianSPORT AND GAMES: cricketer Mark ( Edward ). born 1965, Australian cricketer: a batsman, he scored 8029 runs in 128 test matches (1991–2002)
3. WaughSteve1965MAustralianSPORT AND GAMES: cricketer his twin brother Steve , full name Stephen Roger Waugh. born 1965, Australian cricketer: a batsman, he scored 10,927 runs in 168 test matches and captained Australia to victory in the 1999 World Cup

Example Sentences

Waugh’s team shared these findings in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

From Science News For Students

Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes.

From The Daily Beast

Parisians have chic, Italians have la dolce vita, Brits have Evelyn Waugh—and Americans will always have cool.

From The Daily Beast

Thorpe was acquitted of all wrongdoing, and here is what Waugh had to say about that acquittal in the introduction to his book.

From The Daily Beast

My first book was my undergraduate essay on Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley.

From The Daily Beast

With others, like Evelyn Waugh and J.R.R. Tolkien, we fare better—moving pictures!

From The Daily Beast

And more recently Waugh has lifted up his senile slobber against Mr. Eliot.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the dwellers about the Perdu none was more saturated with the magic of the place than Reuben Waugh, a boy of thirteen.

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So Doc Waugh-hoo hunches down again in a hotel chair and lights a jimpson-weed regalia, and waits.

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Lieutenant Crow has delivered them over to Captain Waugh, and returns to you in a day or two.

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It was inherited by his godson David Waugh, who now apparently offered to let his niece Catherine and her new husband occupy it.

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