Kafka

[ kahf-kah, -kuh ]

/ ˈkɑf kɑ, -kə /

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noun

Franz

[frahnts], /frɑnts/, 1883–1924, Austrian novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague.

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Words nearby Kafka

Kaffraria, Kaffrarian, Kafir, Kafiri, Kafiristan, Kafka, Kafkaesque, Kafka, Franz, kaftan, Kafue, Kagawa

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How to use Kafka in a sentence

Daboll and Kafka then called three more runs, picking up another first down along the way.
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They are trapped in a Kafka-esque system working against them.
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Williams’s protagonist, a teenage girl named Khristen, is the inverted manifestation of Kafka’s hunter.
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It built a streaming data platform on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project.
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The activity on the coliseum floor has a Kafka-meets-Willy Wonka vibe.
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Melville may be the most famous example, but Kafka, Kate Chopin, and many others followed a similar trajectory.
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The great Mann disappointed her; instead of Kafka and Tolstoy, he wanted to know what she thought of Hemingway.
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The last one was Kafka-esque, it was other planet, it was just bizarre.
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The defendants watched from within a steel-mesh cage in what often seemed a grim scene from Kafka or the theater of the absurd.
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I knew about him a little before I went to graduate school, and there I really immersed myself in his stories, and in Kafka.
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There are sketches for the third movement in the Kafka volume, but they afford no help in fixing a date.
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Israel Kafka stood still, gazing down upon the woman he loved, and drawing his breath hard between his parted lips.
The Witch of Prague|F. Marion Crawford
Kafka faced her resolutely, his eyes on fire, the rich colour mantling in his cheeks.
The Witch of Prague|F. Marion Crawford
A moment earlier it would have wounded Israel Kafka to the quick and brought the hot, angry blood to his face.
The Witch of Prague|F. Marion Crawford
Half an hour later Unorna returned to her place among the flowers, but Israel Kafka was gone.
The Witch of Prague|F. Marion Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for Kafka

Kafka

/ (ˈkæfkə, Czech ˈkafka) /

noun

Franz (frants). 1883–1924, Czech novelist writing in German. In his two main novels The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), published posthumously against his wishes, he portrays man's fear, isolation, and bewilderment in a nightmarish dehumanized world

Derived forms of Kafka

Kafkaesque (ˌkæfkəˈɛsk), adjective

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