Heepishness

alternative Uriah Heepishness

1. uncountableFawning, 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

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   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

   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