Shylockian

comparative more Shylockian · superlative most Shylockian

1. Of, relating to, or in the manner of the character Shylock from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, such as being hard-hearted, exploitative, avaricious, deceitful, or vengeful.

   ‘A wilderness of dragons.’ There is a sting in this Shylockian plural, the sharper for coming from a critic, who deserves the title of the poet's best friend.

   1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 8