The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions.
Infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching.
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Examples for "wickedness "
Examples for "wickedness "
1 As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion, but in action; so
2 You are refined in your wickedness ; you are inexorable in your hate.
3 For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.
4 The wickedness and insincerity of the enemy appear from the following considerations:
5 The wickedness of London appals me; and yet I am no paragon.
1 The more interest in the meetings, the more ferocity and vileness outside.
2 They will rescue him; they will refine the vileness out of him.
3 Underneath all the horror, underlying all the vileness - the splendour of it all.
4 Their judgment is not informed about the vileness of it to perfection.
5 Nothing in meanness or vileness or wretchedness is a secret to me.
1 Both of these are mutilations of unquestioned repulsiveness to the untrained sense.
2 He was a terrible brute, a big grizzly bear, ugly to repulsiveness .
3 Frail outcast-thevery scum of a blacks' camp, its repulsiveness was tragic.
4 In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
5 Here we have in all its naked repulsiveness the Stoic theory of predestination.
1 The moral beauty transcended the loathsomeness of physical evil and deformity.
2 Here he lay several days, and its ever-increasing loathsomeness need not be described.
3 A loathsomeness that was to be forever in my daily work!
4 The sheer loathsomeness of nausea and vomiting does seem to serve a biological purpose.
5 And temptation had lost its loathsomeness now-itlooked again attractive.
1 The sliminess of the element utterly destroyed the mechanics of swimming.
2 A certain sliminess clung cloyingly to him, a sensation inferred rather than tactile.
3 She can feel its sliminess against the palm of her hand.
4 To the western palate, sliminess is often greeted with suspicion and associated with decay.
5 The stew doesn't taste bad, but there's a certain sliminess that's hard to get around.
1 He endured the lousiness of defeat and the struggles of battle and he lapped up the juices of success and enjoyed the respect of victory.
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Translations for lousiness