Dickensian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Charles Dickens or, especially, his writings.
 * 2) Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty and social injustice and other aspects of Victorian England.
 * 3) * 1987, Cecil D Eby, The road to Armageddon
 * As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
 * 1) * 2001, Tim Moore, Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
 * By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked Dickensian urchin...
 * 1) * 2004, William Sloane Coffin, A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S. Churches
 * ...a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair...

Translations

 * Finnish: dickensläinen
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Dickensian