Word: veblenian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asleep, usually sat with his head on his hand, murmuring polysyllabically. But his first book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), made a splash whose ripples are still spreading. Veblen was surprised at its popularity, annoyed that it was taken as a satire on aristocracy. Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed. So did the Veblenian style, which H. L. Mencken compared to "a constant roll of subway expresses," which Veblen himself parodied in such passages...
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