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utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched:
abject poverty.
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an abject coward.
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a movement in experimental, nonrepresentational painting originating in the U.S. in the 1940s, with sources in earlier movements, and embracing many individual styles marked in common by freedom of technique, a preference for dramatically large canvases, and a desire to give spontaneous expression to the unconscious. |
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the acceptance of artistic beauty and taste as a fundamental standard, ethical and other standards being secondary.
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an exaggerated devotion to art, music, or poetry, with indifference to practical matters.
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a late Victorian movement in British and American art characterized by a dedicatedly eclectic search for beauty and by an interest in old English, Japanese, and classical art. |
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of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
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Law. depending on a contingent event:
an aleatory contract.
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of or relating to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable:
an aleatory element.
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the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent or hostile:
The advocacy group fights against prejudice and social alienation of immigrants.
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the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection:
the group's alienation from mainstream society.
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the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting:
the alienation of land and resources from African peoples. |
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