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

But abjectness was not more effectual than blackmail.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel