"Gradgrind" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From Thomas Gradgrind, a pedantic teacher in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gradgrinds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Gradgrind (plural Gradgrinds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fictional characters",
          "orig": "en:Fictional characters",
          "parents": [
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            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sciences",
          "orig": "en:Sciences",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Gradgrindery"
        },
        {
          "word": "Gradgrindian"
        },
        {
          "word": "Gradgrindish"
        },
        {
          "word": "Gradgrindism"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860 June, “Representative Art”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 32",
          "text": "They do just what all the practical men of this practical age are doing, what even the Gradgrinds are doing: they embody ideas; they put thoughts into facts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia",
          "text": "“I was purring. I'm a Gradgrind—it's quite right—anything you can say about Herbert Spencer, vivisectors, materialistic Science or Atheists, applies without correction to me. […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Arthur B. Reeve, The Ear in the Wall",
          "text": "He was a veritable Gradgrind for facts, facts, facts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration."
      ],
      "id": "en-Gradgrind-en-noun-fhjAGPLv",
      "links": [
        [
          "human nature",
          "human nature"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gradgrind",
        "Hard Times (novel)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gradgrind"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Gradgrindery"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gradgrindian"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gradgrindish"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gradgrindism"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Thomas Gradgrind, a pedantic teacher in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gradgrinds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Gradgrind (plural Gradgrinds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Dickensian works",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Fictional characters",
        "en:People",
        "en:Sciences"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860 June, “Representative Art”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 32",
          "text": "They do just what all the practical men of this practical age are doing, what even the Gradgrinds are doing: they embody ideas; they put thoughts into facts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia",
          "text": "“I was purring. I'm a Gradgrind—it's quite right—anything you can say about Herbert Spencer, vivisectors, materialistic Science or Atheists, applies without correction to me. […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Arthur B. Reeve, The Ear in the Wall",
          "text": "He was a veritable Gradgrind for facts, facts, facts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration."
      ],
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        [
          "human nature",
          "human nature"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Gradgrind",
        "Hard Times (novel)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gradgrind"
}