: of, relating to, resembling, or suggestive of the journalist Mencken or his writings : critical of philistinism and shams and generally iconoclastic in point of view
when he attacks congressmen, he is very Menckenian—Saul Bellow
the writing is so Menckenian in style that it is sometimes embarrassing—Charles Angoff
free of the engaging Menckenian slapstick—Newsweek
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