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1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 76/2 There have not been wanting travelled Gradgrinds to assure us that the song from his lips was a humbug and a sham.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master v. 59 You, my Gradgrind friend, you think me sentimental.

1924 Glasgow Herald 18 Apr. 8 A nation of Gradgrinds, immersed in work and money-getting, and denying themselves and their employees any opportunity of recreation.

1927 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. Sept. 379/2 These self-appointed Gradgrinds seem to imagine that their actions are pleasing to the Almighty.

1968 Listener 25 July 124/1 Sidney and Beatrice [Webb] instructed Asquith, Balfour, Churchill... Gradgrinds they may have been—it is Beatrice's own self-description—but one cannot deny them greatness.

1925 Public Opinion 7 Aug. 122/1 The gradgrinding system.

1920 Glasgow Herald 14 Aug. 5 A..metropolis of ant-like industry and social Gradgrindery.

1958 R. Williams Culture & Society i. v. 94 Public commissions, Blue Books, Parliamentary legislation—all these, in the world of Hard Times—are Gradgrindery.

1971 Where? Oct. 308/1 The interest motif can be just as bewildering as Gradgrindery, and it should be put into reverse; namely, it is the teacher's task to make interesting that which is relevant.