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UK
/ˈæbdʒɛktli/
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ADVERB
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in a hopeless resigned manner
she shrugged her shoulders abjectly
How To Use abjectly In A Sentence
- You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
- she shrugged her shoulders abjectly
- In his own way, Reilly has surrendered to out of state wowserism as abjectly as the Governor he seeks to unseat. The Chimes at Midnight
- Not that it was Daylight's way abjectly to beg and entreat. Chapter XX
- One form of communication we have failed in abjectly: that is in the teaching of languages. What Has Happened to The American Dream?
- It was for this reason the rector had so abjectly curled up, who still so abject curled up before She-who-was-Cynthia: because of his slave’s fear of her contempt, the contempt of a born-free nature for a base-born nature. The Virgin and the Gypsy
- Here is an unassuming straight-to-video-worthy horror flick which goes about its job with unimpeachable competence, never troubling to conceal how abjectly derivative and cliched it is.
- But what leaves me sputtering in disbelief is that this unfathomably cynical attempt to subvert even the possibility of independent, truth-seeking media is being so abjectly, so supinely accepted. March 2005
- An exchange of cradle-babes, and the base-born slave may wear the purple imperially, and the royal infant begs an alms as wheedlingly or cringe to the lash as abjectly as his meanest subject. CHAPTER 20
- And in the penultimate of his thirty-six pages he confessed abjectly: ‘The evil of the unequal distribution is still to be solved.’