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- adjective Of or pertaining to Noel Coward (1889-1973),
English playwright andactor , or his works, characterized byflamboyant wit .
Etymologies
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Coward + -ian
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The film has a Cowardian feel with its overt sentimentality – a sentimentality turbo-charged by alliance with the war effort – but compared to, say, Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter, the exquisite Greer Garson looks like a creature from another planet.
Mrs Miniver shares Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes feeling Peter Bradshaw 2010
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