Definitions
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- noun the quality or condition of being
ordinary
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- noun the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
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Examples
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Katie Roiphe on Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff: In fact, Sontag’s confrontation with her own ordinariness is the most intriguing element of Rieff’s story.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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John Rentoul said of Blair: "His ordinariness is a facade, it's not real - he's actually a very self-controlled professional presentation manager."
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
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Populist conservatives, many of them on the Christian right, say her ordinariness is her best asset.
Deborah Gyapong 2008
Prolagus commented on the word ordinariness
Come Monday night, the day of work is done
Tuesday morning lose the grey of ordinariness
Start by putting off your chores
And all the crushing bores
Say your morning prayers
Sing a rousing song
Then sing it on the long walk home.
(Come Monday night, by God Help the Girl)
June 3, 2009
Kbrown81 commented on the word ordinariness
Those are the wonderful things that are beyond ordinariness-like love-that makes life worth living.
( The Glorious Impossible, by Madeleine Lengle)
September 29, 2010