friendlessness

Whatever the underlying cause of friendlessness, much of the current research is occupied with how to correct it.

That makes the impact of friendlessness comparable to that of smoking.

Mr Dombey, in his friendlessness, inclined to the Major.

England's betrayal deepened their sense of friendlessness.

Beck has credited God for saving him from drug and alcohol abuse, professional obscurity, and friendlessness.

Yes, this was, indeed, friendlessness.

But becoming a dedicated ballet student in a culture where Maradona, not Nureyev, was king meant enduring friendlessness and taunting.

Even a few consultations with a therapist can sometimes assuage the wounds of friendlessness as well as help a child find ways to improve his social life.

As the pop-culture fascination with serial killers has grown, audiences have learned to pick up telltale signs: friendlessness, shiftiness, cruelty to animals at a young age.

Here is Melville's Wall Street, where Bartleby lives in "miserable friendlessness and loneliness," symbol of the disconnectedness some of the writers saw in the city.

It is true that he had urged her to marry Mallory; but now, in his lonesomeness and friendlessness, he felt almost as though she had been untrue to him.

Thanks to S. D. Perry, who prevents me from friendlessness and joblessness, and to every teacher I've ever had, with the exception of my ninth-grade algebra teacher.

As he sat buried in vain regrets and sorrowful memories, weighed down by thoughts of his utter friendlessness and loneliness, he became aware of the presence of someone approaching his cell along the short corridor.

He knew what it meant to be poor, having been rich, and what a descent in the social scale meant; he could visualise the search for work, the search for a home, the scandal, the friendlessness, the placelessness.

He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the limitations which his body forced upon him, his friendlessness, and the lack of affection which had surrounded his youth.

In the Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800-1400), the Jewish philosopher Saadia Gaon, uses the Platonic idea that the self-isolated man is dehumanized by friendlessness to argue against the misanthropy of anchorite asceticism and reclusiveness.

In Episode 5 of Series 1 of a BBC Sci-fi sitcom, Hyperdrive, a MacArthur-like character, Clare Winchester, a round-the-galaxy solo spacewoman played by Sally Phillips, is parodied with references to video diaries, a diminishing grip on reality and friendlessness.