Similar words: dickens, charles dickens, chicken soup, chicken scratch, chicken sandwich, sicken, thicken, chicken. Meaning: adj. of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions).
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1, The bathrooms in this hotel are positively Dickensian - no hot water and grime everywhere.
2, A Dickensian Christmas; a setting sun; a dainty damsel.
3, They looked like a pair of Dickensian undertakers.
4, The working conditions in the factory were positively Dickensian.
5, The Dickensian workhouse mentality still exists, but you don't need to subscribe to it.
6, They had a Dickensian air with enormous dormitories and little privacy.
7, They were living in a Dickensian apartment block without proper heating or running water.
8, Elderly, softly spoken Mr Crawford in that rather Dickensian office in the City was a far cry from this.
9, Seeking vengeance, he employs two Dickensian thugs, with startling and bleakly hilarious results.
10, He describes his childhood as Dickensian in its poverty and hardship.
11, In Dickensian days Fagin had his thieves' kitchen in London,(http://sentencedict.com/dickensian.html) where he taught youngsters to pick pockets.
12, Despite her bleak background and threadbare, Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.
13, In his coat, Winchell looks like a Dickensian undertaker; he embarrasses me.
14, And for no better reason than this Dickensian Government will not provide the cash.
15, They knew that, like the Dickensian waif, a good wash and new clothes would reveal an angelic face.
16, Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all.
17, The terms set out in thoseagreements are positively Dickensian in their marvelous idiocy.
18, Living conditions can be Dickensian, and grueling six-day work weeks leave little time for anything else but sleeping, eating and doing the laundry.
19, A Dickensian place, Tom.
20, Prepare yourself for a Dickensian romp complete with snow, street urchins and gentlemen in waistcoats.
21, The film has been called "Dickensian" -- and freely borrows from Indian film traditions, right down to its closing dance number.
22, Where's that story coming from? Well, this is a Dickensian mother.
23, The causes have tended to be unpaid wages or Dickensian working conditions.
24, This is why David Copperfield becomes the most popular novel among 20 th century Dickensian readers.
25, But behind the pretty-boy looks was a dramatically potent combination of naked ambition and deep vulnerability, both likely products of his Dickensian childhood in the Bronx.
26, It's a two-up, two-down with a little kitchen and almost has a Dickensian feel to it, with its dark and sooty colours.
27, Within a decade, its rapidly aging population will suffer a severe labor shortage, and China will have millions of elderly people with few kids, and a Dickensian social system, to care for them.
28, To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.
29, Mere dilettantes might not have taken note of Papa Joe – a Dickensian character if ever there was one – since he used a press conference to promote a record label, four days after Michael's death.
30, There is something voluptuous in the rage inspired by the kind of meanness we are used to calling Dickensian.
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