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as in rudeness
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste
the shameless lowness of the comedian's humor is something movie fans either love or hate
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as in weakness
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
her lingering illness reduced her to a state of lowness she had never known before
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One of the original cast members, Mary has always said exactly what was on her mind and is blunt perhaps to the point of rudeness.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2025 -
According to an article from on the growing rudeness in society, incidents like this are becoming more common.—
Darlin Tillery,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.—
Michael Gordon,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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This breeds feelings of frustration and emotional exhaustion.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025
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Where there is affection, there is also exhaustion.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Woll showing signs of fatigue This isn’t a surprise given Woll entered this season having played just 36 regular-season games in the NHL.—
James Mirtle,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a landscape of dating app fatigue and romance scams, the anachronistic-seeming personals section — which is thriving in Vermont — can look like the way of the dating future.—
Wendy Lu,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Even those Republicans who are wary of his volatile leadership style, penchant for vulgarity and willingness to violate conservative orthodoxies are generally reluctant to air those criticisms publicly.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
21 Dec. 2024
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Corbet’s awkward forcing of his characters into his conceptual framework leads to absurdities and vulgarities—not least in the depiction of László’s first and only Black acquaintance, a laborer named Gordon (Isaach De Bankolé), as a heroin addict.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Lowness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lowness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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