Heepishness

English Alternative forms en Uriah Heepishness Etymology From en Heepish -ness: From the Dickens character Uriah Heep, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man. Noun - Fawning, cloying servility and obsequiousness. en Reviews: The English Mail Papers The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette 15 Oct 1897 http://search.proquest.com/docview/1369508171/ 693 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. en 26 June 1983 Anthony Lewis The Kissinger Lesson The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-kissinger-lesson.html E21 But then there arose a competitor in workaholic Heepishness: Alexander Haig. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411045831/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-kissinger-lesson.html 11 April 2021 en 2006 Timothy Chappell Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics http://books.google.com/books?id=ecJsHQKhPy0C&lpg=PP73&ots=JSoGAoskxt&dq=heepishness&pg=PP73#v=onepage&q=heepishness&f=false 73 Oxford University Press Furthermore, this virtue evidently involves an Aristotelian mean—somewhere between hubris and Heepishness. Related terms en Heepish en Heepishly en Uriah Heep en Uriah Heepish en Uriah Heepishly en eponyms terms derived from Dickensian works