lousiness

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Noun
  • Director Penny Lane interviews jazz critics who howl at his wretchedness, then balances it with fans who simply don’t care.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Trump’s petulance, meanness, and willingness to punish a religious institution for its Church’s moral witness is a warning to every faith community in America.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Would there be perpetual meanness and the absence of kindness toward each other as human beings?
    Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • DeMore also talked about his experience in juvenile court and his understanding of brain development’s impact on criminality.
    Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Thus, Ahmed’s Hamlet discovers not just his father’s murder and betrayal but also the criminality on which his family’s entire wealth has been built.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • That’s the dirtiness of rugs and pulling.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • For a young team learning to stick up for each other, Mangiapane brings a needed dirtiness to the Hawks.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
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“Lousiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lousiness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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