Sentence example with the word 'tameness'

tameness

Definition n. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

Last update: September 6, 2015


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In Congress he joined the radical wing of the Republican party, advocated the confiscation of Confederate property, approved and defended the Wade-Davis manifesto denouncing the tameness of Lincoln, and was soon recognized as a hard worker and ready speaker.   [Please select]

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The sparrows came at once, alighting near his hand with a tameness that spoke of pleasing association with the providence above them.   [Please select]

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The boys said she was a live wire and she preferred that high specialization to the tameness of mere beauty.   [Please select]

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Dan half-turned and replied with a tameness Rose had not expected.   [Please select]

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Their tameness and familiarity are astonishing; they act much more like hogs than beasts of prey.   [Please select]

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I ascribe her unusual tameness to the loving care bestowed upon her in her long illness.   [Please select]

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Her tongue seemed tied by the tameness; she felt that they might have been discussing a trivial detail in some trivial future.   [Please select]

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