Chadband
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After the character of Mr Chadband in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (1852).
Noun
[edit]Chadband (plural Chadbands)
- A smug preacher.
- 1891, Alfred Trumble, The Art Collector: A Journal Devoted to the Arts and the Crafts, page 50:
- Chadbands have nothing to do with art, and their appearance on every possible occasion is an insult to artistic intelligence. The priest is the enemy of art; always has been, and always will be. Art is pagan, and the prattle of the preacher will never make it anything else.
- 1941, H. G. Wells, You Can't Be Too Careful:
- Would a Chadband, a deliberate hypocrite, have achieved the stern self-abandonment with which he now set himself to readjust Edward Albert's affairs?