upside down
adverb
with the upper part undermost.
upside-downness
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a word derived from
upside down.
Example Sentences
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The story fills a dozen pages of the book; but the social injustice of the whole world is hinted in that space; the upside-downness of creation, right prostrate, wrong triumphant,—a mad, crazy world.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
Make her pay you a dollar for the dozen, and don’t let her deduct more than a dollar for the upside-downness of the sleeves.
From Patty's Success by Carolyn Wells
They can move the under bill a little, too, but not to amount to anything; so you see there was even more to the upside-downness of that bill than there seemed to be at first.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hallam Hawksworth
