Word: abjectness
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...creature of nightmare . . . the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...From the noun cretin, meaning idiot or village fool. A cretin is a creature of nightmare, humanity's most loathsome being. The word, even in adjectival form, is seldom used jocularly by people of discrimination, since one is seldom called upon to refer with jocularity to the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...Republican Party, which he now repudiates, was satisfactory to him when it had shrunk to a minority fragment dominated exclusively by its conservative element. He said in 1912: "If they [the leaders] are recreant to their trust, the party may suffer the temporary defeat of its purposes. But what abject folly to seek upon such a basis to destroy a great political party. . . . with a clear progressive majority in its ranks, within which there has been builded up a progressive movement that promises to make the Republican Party the instrument through which the government will be restored to the people...
...Poverty, abject, miserable poverty?there you have it. And much unemployment, to make things worse. In addition to the flocks of beggars, there are many able-bodied men who are out of jobs, selling matches or newspapers on the streets for a few pfennigs...
...driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...