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  • noun vulgar, slang Quality of being shit; or being of poor quality or of being undesirable.

Etymologies

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shit +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • Truly, this is the sound of a gauntlet being tossed down with the words, "Come on, Beady Eye, top this one for shitness!"

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  • Ordinarily, I would avoid such a series, relying on my sixth sense for these things that was protestingits inevitable shitness, but I was mesmorised by the heady mix of components that could well have made Street Hawk the bona-fide real thing.

    Simon Revs It Up With STREET HAWK on DVD | Obsessed With Film 2010

  • Early footage of the documentary shows Law talking about his shitness in a video diary.

    Jude Law In “Why Am I Shit?” Documentary Push Jelly 2008

  • His parents currently run a drama school in France, which suggests he was exposed to shitness at a young age.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • Early footage of the documentary shows Law talking about his shitness in a video diary.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • His parents currently run a drama school in France, which suggests he was exposed to shitness at a young age.

    Jude Law In “Why Am I Shit?” Documentary Push Jelly 2008

  • Nice to see someone with "sir" in their name isn't above describing the reason a book isn't published as "shitness".

    Archive 2008-05-01 Editorial Anonymous 2008

  • And then prefects confiscating a perfectly harmless Dragonlance book (harmless in content, harmful because of its shitness).

    Pretentious? Moi? Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Not necessarily between the characters, but maybe one character reveals something the other doesn't know and there is a degree of holy-shitness about it.

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  • Like I said, I have been unnerved by my complete shitness in Journalism caused by the incompetency of my old lecturer.

    sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2006

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