utterness
- a word derived from utter.
Example Sentences
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Coogan does ample justice to Stan’s eyebrows, which, in their rise and fall, are a more sensitive guide to the utterness of his bewilderment than the celebrated scratching of his scalp.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 28, 2018
There is a sense of fatality in the singular mournfulness and majesty which belong to the ruins of Heidelberg, contrasting the vastness of the strength with the utterness of the ruin.
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The “quivering” poise of Don Silva’s nature makes it impossible he should rest quiet in this utterness of moral and spiritual fall.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie
It took time for him to realize the utterness with which his plans had collapsed.
From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.
Peter had a funny, extremely amused laugh; hardly the laugh of a prosperous person; rather that of the unhorsed knight who acknowledges the utterness of his defeat and finds humour in the very fact.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
