wanness
Example Sentences
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Better that than a slight theme stretched to wanness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012
Tender, and tenderly performed, We Are No Longer Children has a wanness about it that might be set to better advantage within the covers of a pale, slim book.
From Time Magazine Archive
For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since that little cloud was dispelled all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
She saw no talons or beak, but a wanness which, indeed, suggested a skeleton.
From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther
