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
But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their own weight into patterns of force and submission, autocracy and abjectness.
From Time Magazine Archive
They kneeled, with misery too intense for speech, on the great plain, with heads bowed and hands clutched together--a spectacle of human abjectness harrowing enough to have made the angels weep.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
