Dostoyevskean

English

Adjective

Dostoyevskean (comparative more Dostoyevskean, superlative most Dostoyevskean)

1. Alternative form of Dostoyevskian
   • 1959, Francis L. Kunkel, The Labyrinthine Ways of Graham Greene, Sheed & Ward, page 111:

     Pinkie is Greene’s most Dostoyevskean character. Like several characters in The Possessed, he revolts dramatically against God and is obsessed with suicide.

   • 1983, Glen Burns, Great Poets Howl: A Study of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, 1943-1955, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 97:

     What is interesting is his emphasis on the Dostoyevskean nature of the group.

   • 2011, Christopher Kutz, “4. Responsibility beyond the law?”, in Gro Nystuen, Andreas Follesdal, Ola Mestad, editors, Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, “4. Was the Graver Commission correct to focus solely on future complicity?”, page 74:

     Second, and more compelling, are practical concerns, chief among them that an over-strict concern for the purity of one’s associates would lead to a muddled, Dostoyevskean responsibility for the sins of the world.

Anagrams

• Dostoevskeyan