deathliness
- a word derived from deathly.
Example Sentences
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To feel flat, or to love in a flattened way, or to love flat things, is one step, we're taught to think, from deathliness.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
Rickman could make even deathliness a turn-on, as he did when he played the title character in Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
Hope then was blazing in our hearts; but this new deathliness went nigh to quench it altogether.
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
Not a blade of grass, not a flower, not even the hardiest lichen, springs up to relieve the utter deathliness of the scene.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
