Definition of Mencken

1. Noun. United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956).

Exact synonyms: H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken
Generic synonyms: Journalist, Literary Critic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mencken

Membracidae
Memel
Memnon
Memorial Day
Memphian
Memphis
Memphite
Memphites
Memphre
Men in Black
Menachem Begin
Menai Strait
Menaka
Menander
Mencius
Mencken
Menckenian
Mende
Mendel
Mendel's first law
Mendel's instep reflex
Mendel's law
Mendel's laws
Mendel's second law
Mendel-Bechterew reflex
Mendeleeff's law
Mendeleev
Mendeleev's law
Mendeleyev
Mendelian

Literary usage of Mencken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"The theory is good: it explains mencken. And then I found that mencken is forty-two ... Then I did what I should have done at the start: I read mencken, ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"mencken, In Defense of Women, Knopf. mencken, Philosophy of Nietzsche, Knopf. ... mencken, Little Book in С Major, Knopf. mencken & Le Monte, Men Versus the ..."

3. The Works of William Robertson ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1817)
"mencken Script. rer. Germ. vol. iii. p. 1067- IT is not necessary for illustrating what is contained in the text, that I should describe the manner in which ..."

4. The Profession of Journalism: A Collection of Articles on Newspaper Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1918)
"... MORALS BY HL mencken ASPIRING, toward the end of my nonage, to the black robes of a dramatic critic, I took counsel with an ancient whose service went ..."

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