Word: waughspish
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...survives that chapter with any honor; everyone in Mr. Wilson's new and very Waughspish world is damned and inhuman...
...Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...
When he is not unmasking cruelty, Author Powers takes a Waughspish delight in lampooning vulgarity. The Presence of Grace is about a sociable young curate, Father Fabre, who unwittingly dignifies a liaison between one of his parishioners, Mrs. Mathers, and her non-Catholic paramour, Mr. Pint, by dining with them and Mr. Pint's daughter Velma. The high comic humors of the story and the evening revolve around an old-fashioned ice cream freezer...
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