[
US
/ˈæbdʒɛkt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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showing utter resignation or hopelessness
abject surrender -
most unfortunate or miserable
abject poverty
the most abject slaves joined in the revolt -
of the most contemptible kind
a low stunt to pull
a scummy rabble
his miserable treatment of his family
abject cowardice
a scurvy trick
a low-down sneak
You miserable skunk! -
showing humiliation or submissiveness
an abject apology
How To Use abject In A Sentence
- You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
- Another (even greater) problem was that she was unwilling to submit to her dictates or prostrate herself in abject submission.
- The attempt ended in abject failure.
- Trojans turned in an abject performance to crash to their heaviest defeat in over four years.
- The Vera Icon clearly shows the humiliation and abjection of the incarnate Christ.
- And no wonder after this abject display from City. The Sun
- Unless looks deceive so convincingly, he does not look indigent and like someone in state of abject poverty; more like a man in full control of his bearing, faculties and appearance.
- The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
- The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
- To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system. Racebending and Integration
