Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or befitting a mandarin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Appropriate or peculiar to a
mandarin .
Etymologies
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mandarin + -ic
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Examples
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It will come down because it is ridiculous, and no mandarinic efforts can keep it up.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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For the supreme convention of life on the mandarinic plane is that the shoe never pinches.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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The first business of any writer, and especially of any critical writer, is not to be mandarinic and tedious, and these lecturers have not yet learnt that first business.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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