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Greeneian, a.|ˈgriːnɪən|
Also Greene-ian, Greenian.
[f. the name of the English writer Graham Greene (b. 1904) + -ian.]
Typical of, or resembling the style, matter, or quality of the works of Graham Greene.
1961Encounter Apr. 70 The idiom is often satisfyingly Greeneian—there is an ample provision of those new proverbs of hell. 1963Punch 26 June 938/1 ‘Under the Garden’..begins in the cold Greene-ian manner. 1968Listener 10 Oct. 475/1 A palpable difference between Greene and Amis is that everything Greenian is available in the first of his ‘Catholic’ novels..while there is something approaching an emergent moral philosophy in Amis. |