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Chadband|ˈtʃædbænd|
[Name of a character, ‘the Rev. Mr. Chadband’, in Dickens's Bleak House.]
A canting unctuous hypocrite. So Chadˈbandian a.; ˈChadbandism; ˈChadbandize v. intr.
[1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xix. 187 The Chadband style of oratory is widely received and much admired.] 1908Daily Chron. 4 Nov. 5/3 There is no Chadbandian caricaturing of the parson. 1913G. B. Shaw Quint. Ibsenism 189 Any attempt to Chadbandize on the wickedness of such crimes is at once resented as..‘moral babble’. 1920Punch 14 Jan. 33/2 His caustic dispraise Of President Wilson's Chadbandian ways. 1923A. G. Gardiner Cadbury 259 His dislike of narrowness of view and Chadbandism kept him free from censoriousness. |