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  • noun The state of being an asshole

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asshole +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It takes a certain kind of assholeness to do that.)

    Matt Ortega: All in the Family 2008

  • That there is a need on this planet to beg for one day of non-assholeness.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • If you mean have I apologised or something to the victims of my assholeness, no, it has never occurred to me.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • The fragility, humanity, or pure assholeness of a lead can be fully examined if they are naked.

    Let's Do It Like They Do On The Discovery Channel 2007

  • The fragility, humanity, or pure assholeness of a lead can be fully examined if they are naked.

    September 2007 2007

  • Does one's use of grammar and language that displeases you nullify the validity of their reaction to your assholeness?

    Illusions: Fake Twitters and Strange Looks BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He was especially known in the gossip for turning his assholeness on people who displeased him.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • What I was left with in all of this, more than anything, more than my sense of his assholeness, more than my understanding that "everybody loves Harlan's assholeness", was that everybody was afraid of Harlan Ellison.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • He was especially known in the gossip for turning his assholeness on people who displeased him.

    On Harlangate 2006

  • Of what significance is ‘being saved’ when a coke snorting, pot smoking vicious drunk like W can have thirty years of assholeness forgiven in one hungover walk through the woods with confessed anti-Semite Billy Graham?

    Tom Gilroy: Is There Anybody Out There? 2008

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