Etymology

poshlost

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Today it means: In Russian culture, a negative human character trait, variously defined as petty evil, self-satisfied vulgarity, or obscenity and bad taste. Full definition →

Russian по́шлость
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromпо́шлость
  2. English todayposhlost

Borrowed from Russian по́шлость (póšlostʹ).

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