Pooterish

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1. Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.

   The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish.

   1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378

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   The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161).

   2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, →ISBN

   That said, it produces a great comic creation in Alan Dixon (Richard Kane), a splendidly Pooterish middle-aged clerk, fixated with unctuous reverence on the activities of British royalty and the aristocracy, including one or two of the firm's clients.

   2013, Tony Whitehead, Mike Leigh, →ISBN, page 43