menckenese

menckenese
n.
A provocative and often caustic writing style patterned after the journalist H. L. Mencken.
Example Citation:
"[It is] difficult to read through a daily paper without finding a feature writer who employs Menckenese."
— George Mayberry
Notes:
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties."
"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry."
"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
"Self-respect- The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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