"Gradgrind" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Thomas Gradgrind, a pedantic teacher in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854).",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Fundamental"
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        },
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sciences",
          "orig": "en:Sciences",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Arthur B. Reeve, The Ear in the Wall:",
          "text": "He was a veritable Gradgrind for facts, facts, facts.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration."
      ],
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Gradgrind",
        "Hard Times (novel)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gradgrind"
}

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    {
      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Gradgrind (plural Gradgrinds)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
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        {
          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Arthur B. Reeve, The Ear in the Wall:",
          "text": "He was a veritable Gradgrind for facts, facts, facts.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration."
      ],
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      ],
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        "Hard Times (novel)"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "Gradgrind"
}