Dickensian characters, especially so because of their typically whimsical names, are amongst the most memorable in English literature.

"I don't want them to sound like Dickensian characters throwing the widow and children out into a snowbank in the middle of winter."

"The industrial-era setting is populated with leering, Dickensian characters."

A tiny lady, less than 5 feet tall, she dressed in thick tweeds and hunting capes even in midsummer; one could say a Dickensian character.

Pickwick came back to him dimly as a Dickensian character.

If this isn't my old friend Boris Johnson, himself something of a Dickensian character.

Lament: Dickensian Fagin-type character who creates and terrorizes child vampyres.

The disease has been known since the 1950s, initially as "Pickwickian syndrome" in reference to a Dickensian character but currently under a more descriptive name.

Along the way, Saba is captured by a couple of improbably Dickensian characters, who sell her on to the local cage-fighting operation.

But a bankruptcy proceeding can also assume Dickensian character.