Rabelaisian characters.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

She was a dedicated, highly trained practitioner, but she seemed to view the incident at West Dorm -- at least in some aspects -- as a kind of Rabelaisian joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

Rita translated quickly, and in Rabelaisian manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined City]

Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Observer's list of the 100 greatest novels of all time] Reference

Amidst the Rabelaisian gaiety and farce and quixotic madness, Oe's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer] Reference

In truth, however, New Orleans is as sublime as it is Rabelaisian.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Worth Saving] Reference

Rabelaisian food-fight, with cabbages as cannonballs, and stockpots as war engines. 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference

I don't start a novel thinking, this will be a satire bordering on Rabelaisian extremes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man of Infinite Jest] Reference

I had expected a Rabelaisian character, but he isn't nearly as gargantuan as his blog implies.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Meet Gargantua . . . Not!] Reference

Blagojevich's lack of responsibility is Rabelaisian: there's no sense of shame at being caught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giles Slade: Free Fall: December 2008.] Reference

It's certainly Rabelaisian -- just look at his big, bad, bold blogsite in all its (e)sc(h)atological glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Meet Gargantua . . . Not!] Reference

A good Rabelaisian tale, that must not have been wide-spread among the Danish topers, whose powers both Saxo and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

The narrator's Rousseauism turns out to be strangely Rabelaisian, miles apart from the gushy enthusiasm of Bissot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia] Reference

Urquhart, the translator of Rabelais, died, it is said, of laughter at the people's wild delight -- a truly Rabelaisian end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Oe turns to a satirical, scatological ploy of Rabelaisian proportions to resolve the crisis: a poison is replaced by laxatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer] Reference

In it two Rabelaisian characters happen upon a strange island haunted by the sounds of a battle that is clearly not taking place.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Josipovici « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

Cheerfulness requires something more than a well-balanced Rabelaisian nonchalance in adversity and a keen relish for all pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

No less than The New York Times has commended them for being smoky, meaty, "incredibly tender" and served in "Rabelaisian portions.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryder's Ribs] Reference

France in Old (or at least Rabelaisian) French, which were to have been a hundred in number but never got beyond the third batch of ten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

His social insecurity, particularly with women, had eased with success, and he had adopted a Rabelaisian approach to all women of all ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, by James Gunn] Reference

A very common trick of the Rabelaisian humor is to multiply specifications, or alternative expressions, one after another, almost without end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

He was met with an instant storm of chaff, and allusions of a Rabelaisian sort were made to one Mary for whom he would seem to have had a kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Rabelaisian banter was poured upon the head of the unhappy nobleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe] Reference

Plentiful claret set his tongue wagging in Rabelaisian reminiscence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

The book and its Rabelaisian criticisms have been long since forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference

The King fell back in his chair, and went into a roar of Rabelaisian laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference

It was hilarious, I mean it was Rabelaisian, I mean it was not like any diplomatic memoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Murray] Reference

Rabelaisian touch of magnanimous understanding which makes even the leanest wits among us glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

The bridegroom is fair game all the world over for the Rabelaisian jest and the clown's horseplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

Rabelaisian souls who could lift our mortal burden with oceanic merriment, only the New Movement frightens them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

Many a witty man will remember how in his school days a practical joke, more or less Rabelaisian, was for him the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference

It is to be found in the company of Shakespearean clodhoppers, and Rabelaisian topers, and Cervantian serving-wenches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

"I cude sing a song wi 'anybody once," she said; and therewith she struck up a fine, very Rabelaisian old song in many verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Poor Man's House] Reference

Rabelaisian guise, careless, lazy and skeptical, also inclined to be melancholy and happy at the same time; nick-named by his friends the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference