Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abject, mean, or servile manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Meanly; servilely.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a hopeless resigned manner
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Examples
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One form of communication we have failed in abjectly: that is in the teaching of languages.
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One form of communication we have failed in abjectly: that is in the teaching of languages.
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He was to live, it appeared, abominably worried, he was to live consciously rueful, he was to live perhaps even what a scoffing world would call abjectly exposed; but at least he was to live saved.
The Finer Grain Henry James 1879
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Oh! (_He fetches up two coins abjectly from his pocket_).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 Various 1876
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Thus it was amazing to me how quickly, faced with the possible loss of the most important person in the world, I overcame my puritan principles and called abjectly for help.
RutlandHerald.com 2008
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Thus it was amazing to me how quickly, faced with the possible loss of the most important person in the world, I overcame my puritan principles and called abjectly for help.
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Beyond doubt, the boy had broken the taboos, and privily he told him so, until Lamai trembled and wept and squirmed abjectly at his feet, for the penalty was death.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Once before he had tried Spencer, and choosing the "Principles of Psychology" to begin with, he had failed as abjectly as he had failed with Madam Blavatsky.
Chapter 13 2010
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Just the first line of your last post was so utterly ludicrous and abjectly stupid I am ashamed to be the same species as someone as bone chillingly ignorant as you.
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I remember one man they dragged out of a heap, who pleaded abjectly until a revolver shot cut him short.
100000232338334 commented on the word abjectly
"'Scuse me,' I said abjectly, putting my tray on the bar and meeting Terry's eyes briefly."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
May 19, 2011