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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One given to criticizing the actions and characters of other people; a gossip.
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“It is in relation to the other three that we have to consider Dumas as a character-monger.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“She was his pet, his dear love, his dear little Burney, his little character-monger.”
“She was emphatically what Johnson called her, a character-monger.”
“But an impeccable poet is not necessarily an impeccable plot - and character-monger either in tale-telling or in drama.) [31] Of this we have unusually strong evidence in the shape of MS.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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