abjectness

Example Sentences

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The issue of women’s equality, she wrote, has little to do with the “relative benevolence or ill-will of individual men, nor the self-confidence or abjectness of individual women.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2018

Onion: Right, it was that Teflon quality that always made their abjectness palatable for me before.

From Slate • May 30, 2013

She is great at feet, too – at clunky shoes, elegant brogues, baby feet and the abjectness of men in socks.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2010

Finding it, his life really begins and his abjectness towards his wife is at an end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Badly housed, badly clad, badly fed, and hardly taught at all, the very poor were in a state of abjectness unfit for dogs.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir