a Dickensian name
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Dickensian
//dɪˈkɛn.zɪ.ən//
Synonyms for "dickensian" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (1)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (3)
Adjective(2 words)
Noun(1 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 8 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- dickensià adj (of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens)
- dickensià adj (similar to Dickens’ writing style)
- dickensià adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
Czech
2 entries- dickensovský adj (of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens)
- dickensovský adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
Estonian
1 entries- dikenslik adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
Finnish
2 entries- dickensiläinen adj (of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens)
- dickensiläinen adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
French
2 entries- dickensien adj (of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens)
- dickensien adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
German
2 entries- Dickensisch adj (of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens)
- dickensisch adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
Greek
1 entries- ντικενσιανό adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
Spanish
1 entries- dickensiano adj (reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England)
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6 total sentences available.
At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
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As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.
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As earlier implied, the planet is threatened on three major fronts: […] (3) by a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair.
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