Sitwellianadj.n.

1920 Voices May 168 ‘Rocky Acres’ is not the terrain of Mr. Graves, Nor is his ‘God of Poetry’ the Sitwellian Pantaloon who ‘stoops and leaps me through his paper hoops.’

1927 Observer 5 June 4 The Sitwells are known to everyone who has even a casual acquaintance with modern literature, though many who talk of them seem to have read about their doings rather than studied them in their own works. This is a necessary consequence of the Sitwellian methods of publicity.

1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 322/1 Mr. Courtenay's extremely modern simile with its oozy vowels—Sitwellian, surely.

1960 V. Sackville-West Let. 23 Mar. in H. Nicolson Diaries (1968) 382 Edith has built up her personality in many fortuitous ways—her strange appearance,..and all the Sitwellian legend.

1978 J. Pearson Façades xi. 196 The society was conducted with true Sitwellian panache.

2002 R. Read Art & its Discontents (2003) i. 24 Stokes would ultimately disassociate himself from Sitwellian writing.

1920 S. Afr. Q. Dec. 22/2 Is this poetry? Hardly, we would say, though some devout Sitwellian might claim that it described accurately his sensations.

1978 J. Pearson Façades xi. 212 Thomas Balston at Duckworth's—himself an enthusiastic Sitwellian—had taken over from Grant Richards as the trio's publisher.

1991 Country Life 24 Oct. 112/3 She [sc. Arabella Boxer] is less perceptive on the subtler stratifications, expressed in menus, between Bloomsbury and Sitwellians.