lowliness

The seething lyrics fixate on the lowliness of the human condition.

Medical texts, like Dr. Arthur Stout’s 1862 publication on “Chinese Immigration and the Physiologic Causes of the Decay of the Nation,” add legitimacy to this racist folktale which contends that foreigners, in addition to their biologic lowliness, also possess behavioral inferiority as evidenced by lack of sanitation and strange foods.

The man they considered the town drunk had shamed them by pointing out the lowliness of their deed.

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

“The word mean has more than one definition, Miss Gilly. Here the poet is talking about humility, lowliness, not”—he laughed softly—“not bad nature.”