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Heepishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Heepish + -ness: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Fawning, cloying servility and obsequiousness.
   • But then there arose a competitor in workaholic Heepishness: Alexander Haig. 1983 June 26, Anthony Lewis, “The Kissinger Lesson”, in The New York Times, page E21:
   • Furthermore, this virtue evidently involves an Aristotelian mean—somewhere between hubris and Heepishness. 2006, Timothy Chappell, Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Oxford University Press, page 73:
   • 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. 1897 October 15, “Reviews: The English Mail Papers”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, page 693:

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Relateds

Uriah Heep · Heepish · Uriah Heepish · Uriah Heepishly · Heepishly

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