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Meaning of Heepishness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Fawning, cloying servility and obsequiousness.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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