heepishness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The stories circulated about the measures taken for the Plague were, as Professor Gokhlee admitted in his apology, which we have to-day the advantage of reading in its full Heepishness, a mere pack of lies."
- "But then there arose a competitor in workaholic Heepishness: Alexander Haig."
- "Furthermore, this virtue evidently involves an Aristotelian mean—somewhere between hubris and Heepishness."
Etymology
From Heepish + -ness: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.