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Hogarth

[ hoh-gahrth ]

noun

  1. William, 1697–1764, English painter and engraver.


Hogarth

/ ˈhəʊɡɑːθ /

noun

  1. HogarthWilliam16971764MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: engraverARTS AND CRAFTS: painter William. 1697–1764, English engraver and painter. He is noted particularly for his series of engravings satirizing the vices and affectations of his age, such as A Rake's Progress (1735) and Marriage à la Mode (1745)


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Derived Forms

  • Hoˈgarthian, adjective

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Other Words From

  • Ho·garthi·an adjective

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Example Sentences

WPP’s media agency group GroupM and sibling creative shop Hogarth have formed the Addressable Content Practice, which aims to facilitate the creation of ads that are fitted to specific audience segments.

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Dickens being Dickens, the death of Mary Hogarth did not drive him to record only one girl's fate.

Characters based upon Mary Hogarth show up in many of Dickens' early novels.

The delicate cross-hatching that reached back to Hogarth and Dore was not as precise as it had been, but he was over 80 now.

They are hideous and terrible paintings of drunkenness, but without the morality of Hogarth.

Hogarth comes from "hoggart," a hog-herd; Calvert from "calf-herd;" and Seward from "sow-herd."

It was possible that when her father's steamer stopped to pay sea-rent, Hogarth might have heard, and seized him.

Up shot Frankl's shivering arms, while Hogarth, training his ermines and purples, paced away.

The mention by Hogarth of Ridley and Latimer they considered irrelevant; their fathers' heroic mood was a detail: not an entail.

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