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  • They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • “His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
  • Personally, I'm feeling as dejected, disappointed and scared as I am angry.
  • There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
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  • Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Once, indeed, he guides her hand to transcribe in a book the words of her exaltation, the Ave, and the Magnificat, and the Gaude Maria, and the young angels, glad to rouse her for a moment from her dejection, are eager to hold the inkhorn and to support the book. English literary criticism
  • I hereby renounce and deject this superdelegate and the President he served. Obama Campaign Moving Joe Andrew All Over Indiana Today
  • To fits of hypochondria and deep dejection he had, as he himself tells us, been subject from his earliest manhood, and he attributes to overtoil in boyhood this tendency which was probably a part of his natural temperament. Robert Burns
  • There is a like discrepancy in the views on the possibility of its diffusion by drinking water, on the influence of conditions of soil, on the question whether the dejecta contain the poison or not, and on the duration of the incubation period. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
  • On the seventh, all the symptoms were exacerbated; had no sleep, but the urine of the same characters, and the understanding disordered; alvine dejections bilious and fatty. Of The Epidemics
  • On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose. Of The Epidemics
  • She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected. The Sun
  • Coleridge also saw a bird in a larch tree, a ‘throstle’ or thrush in a larch appears in a version of what became his Dejection Ode.
  • He hated how she made him think she accepted him, and then crushed all his hopes and smiled triumphantly as he walked away dejected.
  • The one thing I know I could describe is the rollercoaster ride that your feelings experience, from abject dejection at diagnosis to jubilation at a positive blood count.
  • She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected. The Sun
  • But, yet again, I failed miserably and came away feeling dejected, disheartened, deflated and demoralised.
  • A giant live oak tree shaded the west side of the house, a long-abandoned tire swing hanging dejectedly from a sturdy branch.
  • He took a deep breath in, and let it out slowly, his chest falling dejectedly.
  • He was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • The chauffeur made wild, appealing gestures of his innocence, evidently to no avail, for when he turned around and climbed back into the driver's seat his expression was not a little dejected.
  • He was now dejected and devoid of his trademark bow tie, which was a clue from the wardrobe department that he was a dastardly dandy.
  • She sat in the corner in utter dejection.
  • A few minutes after, looking up towards the gallery, she perceived, in one of the furthest rows, young Melmond; his eye fixt upon their pew, but withdrawn the instant he was observed and his air the most melancholy and dejected. Camilla
  • But "-- dejectedly --" one feels so much more than one knows; and when I want to know, I am never satisfied. The Heavenly Twins
  • These boxes were placed at the end of each row of tents or wards, and were so arranged that both the dejecta and the bedpans were thoroughly disinfected. 181 This proved itself so useful that it came subsequently into general employment in the hospitals at Salonika. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
  • Compounding this dejection, untenured lecturers are discovering the practical meanings of what most of the US labor force already knows about the practicalities of at-will termination.
  • Neque prius in iis desiderium cessat dum dejectus consoletur; videre enim est ipsam arborem incurvatam, ultro ramis ab utrisque vicissim ad osculum exporrectis. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Side by side they were sitting on a bench, the picture of dejection. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • Dark blue, on the other hand, has a sedative effect, and can make some people feel melancholy and dejected.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
  • The patient affected with phrenitis, having taken to bed on the first day, vomited largely of verdigris-green and thin matters; fever, accompanied with rigors, copious and continued sweats all over; heaviness of the head and neck, with pain; urine thin, substances floating in the urine small, scattered, did not subside; had copious dejections from the bowels; very delirious; no sleep. Of The Epidemics
  • For those who couldn't go to Denvention/WorldCon [looks dejectedly at the ground while kicking the dirt underneath the twin suns of Tatooine], here's a batch of fine Denvention/WorldCon reports and/or photo sets from: [UPDATED] A Round-Up of WorldCon Reports and Photos
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce. Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia
  • When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said: Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • I sat down dejectedly next to him after he picked up his school bag.
  • A look of dejection passed through her eyes as she looked away, trying not to feel hurt by his turndown.
  • The First Actresses, National Portrait Gallery - review The catalogue of the new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery opens with a dejected little enquiry into the origin of the term "actress", as though the author, Gill Perry, has some objection to the distinction in terms of gender between the male and female trouper. Evening Standard - Home
  • Celebration time for the players in sky blue, dejection, utter dejection, for the gallant Gaeltacht.
  • She began to walk out the door but she heard him sink down on the bed dejectedly.
  • They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
  • But their elation turned to dejection as their opponents snatched victory from them in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out.
  • Most dejecta of dust acarid may be found on home mattress, pillow, bedquilt, sofa, carpet and curtain.
  • In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
  • A hen I call him, as well for his cackling, ready and smooth tongue, wherein he giveth place to none, as for his deep and subtle art in hiding his serpentine eggs from common men's sight: chiefly for his hennish heart and courage, which twice already hath been well proved to be as base and deject at the sight of any storm of adverse fortune, as ever was hen's heart at the sight of a fox. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • Depression refers to a state of dejection, loneliness, and hopelessness.
  • Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women. Undesirables
  • When she sees or hears of injustice, the normally happy girl becomes so melancholy and dejected that it worries others.
  • Holly was so dejected by the hours of work wasted that she changed into her comfortable walking boots and headed out for the two-mile walk to Blue Crab Cove, hoping the beautiful inn would reinspire her to work on the recipes later. The Love Goddess’ Cooking School
  • Dejection of spirits is an epidemical disease, and unless some fortunate event or other gives a turn to the disorder, in time it may prevail. Robert Morris
  • I have heard some complain of Parson's Resolution, and other books of like nature (good otherwise), they are too tragical, too much dejecting men, aggravating offences: great care and choice, much discretion is required in this kind. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • I ran a comb through my own hair and stared dejectedly at my reflection.
  • Many wore the traditional yellow shirts of the four-times champions and there was little sympathy for England's dejection on the Falls Road, still festooned with Irish tricolours.
  • For most of the evening, until Dean hit the stage, the crowd rested somewhere between disappointment and dejection.
  • It descends and when the doors open he is astonished to be greeted by a scene of desolation, with dejected people dressed in rags and a smell of sulphur in the air.
  • The preparations included specimens of choleraic dejections dried on covering glasses, stained with fuchsin or methyl-blue, and examined with oil immersion, one-twelfth, and Abbe's condenser; also sections of intestine preserved in absolute alcohol, and stained with methyl-blue. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Shown here with his gift of humor displaced by a sense of national loss, he meditates dejectedly on the capture of the Polish border town of Smolensk by the Muscovites in 1514.
  • A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
  • It was called the Prato, and by the shocking discrepancy between its name and appearance added to my dejection, for the one recalled and the other mocked memories of that green and sunlit plain in Padua, that dear Pra della Valle, upon whose grassy dimples looked the house of Aurelia, and to whose wandering winds The Fool Errant
  • Germany was dominating a dejected Norway and almost went up 4-0 in the 78th minute when Prinz, with yet another cutback from the right, found Bajramaj, whose firm shot rattled the crossbar. Germany blanks Norway, will face U.S.-Brazil winner
  • Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
  • Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Not only did he not renounce and deject -- er ... denounce and reject -- the comments from his now "good friend" GW Bush and Rove and the rest of that ilk, he didn't apologize then for his vote and lack of support for the MLK holiday and any number of other bills and issues that would matter to the African-Americans in his constituency. McCain: I Was Wrong To Vote Against Making MLK Day A Holiday
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.
  • They want us to be afflicted by our helplessness and dejectedness keeping us down and feel like slaves although we just want to feel like and be treated like human beings. Wooster Collective: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives
  • Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.
  • She is a brave woman, whom nothing dejects or disconcerts, which is the living proof that we are only valued according to the force and versatility of the inner consciousness. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Sarain sat dejectedly in the warm water, staring down at its steamy surface.
  • The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind. Leviathan
  • An instance was where anything was negligently or carelessly thrown from a house (dejecta vel effusa). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Nat's face was set, his usually warm, soft expression was hard and chilly, his cloudy eyes hinting at sorrow and dejection.
  • She never looked dejected or dispirited, though she had all the reason.
  • This is the party you could have if you only did something, instead of sitting here, feeling dejected, disconsolate and woebegone…
  • Is this then a thing of that worth, that for it my soul should suffer, and become worse than it was? as either basely dejected, or disordinately affected, or confounded within itself, or terrified? Meditations
  • The story tapers off, leaving the reader disappointed and dejected by a work that promises much, but delivers little.
  • Dejection, on the other hand, is an essential constituent of tennis.
  • The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • His life's labor and meaning reduced to nothing, Cipriano returns home, dejected and depressed.
  • His heart sank and the disappointment and utter dejection he felt was sharp and foreign.
  • Then, into this dejected council of two -- cheerful, decided, and aboundingly energetic swept Aunt Eliza. The Moon out of Reach
  • She smiled tentatively at Caroline's compliment, but there was a slight air of dejection about her. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • So the mouse returned to the house, head down dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Besieged by the headlines, he sits isolated in his own dejected box of darkness, looking like the face of mourning America.
  • President Clinton is described as "dejected" by the turn of events Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview
  • I was thoroughly discouraged, so I turned away and flopped dejectedly onto my bed.
  • She slumped dejectedly over the wheel.
  • When he came back the following week he was totally dejected. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
  • I sat clumsily on the floor and slumped against the wall dejectedly.
  • I started tearing at my hair instead, staring dejectedly at the asphalt.
  • After the subsiding of the first surprise and indignation the agitation of his own thoughts too much occupied John's mind to admit of his being much diverted by the sorrows of his black boy; and Tom was too much affected by the dejectedness of his friend to entertain any lasting concern for the sable sufferer. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
  • I think on Fridays we're supposed to both renounce and deject the story. Another Version Of The Goolsbee Story From ABC News
  • The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • You'll have to limp home with an empty wallet, dejected.
  • Karen runs up the stairs after her, as a defeated and dejected Mrs. Tilford slouches out the door.
  • She slid dejectedly into her seat, slumping a little and propping her head up on her desktop, her fingers halfway into her hair, and closed her eyes for a moment.
  • Over the past four years, I have seen his face evolve into picture of dejection.
  • With the deepest dejectedness he squeezed himself into a corner, and Shaykh Nur, who was foully dirty, as an Indian en voyage always is, would have joined him in his shame, had I not ordered the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • It isn't easy to focus and concentrate on God's voice when everybody and everything around you dejects Him and tells you otherwise.
  • One deject and unresponsive widow has even been seen to bounce back to her former brilliance through the hard work and puppy love provided by a service animal. Wendy Diamond: International Widows Day Opens Eyes, Hearts
  • They descended dejectedly into the hollow of the mountains, and found themselves once more immerged in woods. The Italian
  • A badness which embraces and wallows in social dejecta. Good Bad
  • They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
  • Isolated from the dejecta of health infant . The stability and not processed by any genic engineering.
  • Then the young salesman drags himself dejectedly across the carlot, head down, to see if the boss will accept our counter offer. Grouse Diary Entry
  • Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness. The Confessions
  • You can feel the raw pain radiating off her; the despair and dejection are thick in the air about her.
  • To say as Obama inferred in his Oslo speech that the greater plunge into Afghanistan is self-defense, with proportional force and sparing civilians from violence is a scale of self-delusion or political cowardliness that is dejecting his liberal base. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Putting his elbows on his knees, he leaned forward slightly, holding his face in his hands, his shoulders slumped in complete dejection.
  • The lithoid masses here cover, if we may use the expression, the shore of the ancient interior sea; everything subject to destruction, such as the liquid dejections, and the scoriae filled with bubbles, has been carried away. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • He failed to make the qualifying distance to get through to the final throws for the medals, finishing twelfth and a dejected last. Times, Sunday Times
  • That feeling of dejection could be very depressing for a child if he is not able to establish a relationship he wants.
  • There were tears and dejection and frustration and misery and anger for North Ribblesdale last Saturday.
  • Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
  • Not yesterday; he finished a sad and dejected tenth. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, the mouse returned to the house and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
  • Its hero, Milo, is perpetually dejected, burdened with motiveless discontent.
  • He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • If they can't be bothered with you and look dejected or miserable, something is wrong. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
  • There was a slight air of dejection about her.
  • Absentmindedly rolling a piece of bologna into a tube before biting into it, I hoped dejectedly that that wasn't what my dealing with Andrew was coming to.
  • Other carnivorous birds, especially the bluebirds, sat dejectedly on the fences waiting for spring. Bird Cloud
  • Back at your desk, look utterly dejected. Times, Sunday Times
  • Holy Ghost through pride of heart; the latter refuse it through dejectedness of spirit, and sink under the weight of their troubles. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much human depression is cognitively generated by dejecting ruminative thought. Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • At half-time, we came in a bit dejected. The Sun
  • The sense of dejection was palpable from the club.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • The little boy walked dejectedly down the cracked sidewalk.
  • when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen
  • Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
  • Is she bowed down before God in prostration of need, in conscious dejection of unworthiness, in passionate self-abasement and desire for that renewal which comes through renunciation?
  • Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
  • If they can't be bothered with you and look dejected or miserable, something is wrong. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
  • Another method is to laboriously analyse the injesta or food consumed and compare it with the dejecta or excretions, until a quantity and kind of food is found which is just sufficient to keep the body in equilibrium. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
  • The tray which receives the dejecta should be cleaned out and supplied with fresh sawdust each day, and the soiled sawdust, remains of food, etc., should be cremated. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
  • His writing on the last campaign trail was increasingly dejected but never downbeat.
  • When he came back the following week he was totally dejected. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
  • I've had a word with my supervisor," I begin dejectedly, knowing what's coming next. FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 2)
  • Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
  • The inability of entering Western intellectual society made them feel dejected and depressed.
  • You did not deject any love, the beat of your heart, Motion Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Dejectedly, everyone fished out their keys and laid them silently in front of the headmaster.
  • Israelite and his dulcinea dejected in consequence of their disgrace, the poet absorbed in lofty meditation, the painter in schemes of revenge; while Jolter, rocked by the motion of the carriage, made himself amends for the want of rest he had sustained; and the mendicant, with his fair charge, were infected by the cloudy aspect of our youth, in whose disappointment each of them, for different reasons, bore no inconsiderable share. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • Even more dejecting was the crucial role played by church-going people of color duped into undermining their own interests by setting a precedent to rescind and rollback civil rights. Shahid Buttar: After the (Grand Old) Party: Don't Go Home Just Yet
  • The distinguishing mental features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, abrogation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity.
  • She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected.
  • As low, dejected and depressed as she'd ever felt, she began to get the morning's activities prepared.
  • I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. Religio Medici
  • The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Neque prius in iis desiderium cessat dum dejectus consoletur; videre enim est ipsam arborem incurvatam, ultro ramis ab utrisque vicissim ad osculum exporrectis. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The families and relations of the victims, not surprisingly, became dejected and developed resentment for the government.
  • But, just as there were celebrations, so too was there a feeling of dejection and loss among those who had worked hard to block the bill.
  • Initially, we were dejected and nearly ‘bought’ his hard luck story; but a little questioning gave away his sheer malingering.
  • Maybe they were dejectedly resigned to seeing another green field site disappear under tons of concrete?
  • He did not sprawl loosely in dejection, as had the negro, but he sat with one foot beside the stone and his body leaning half-forward, his muscles tense, like a forest cat awaiting its spring. Plotting in Pirate Seas
  • I, "dejectedly," haven't been in love for quite a long, long time now. April's Lady A Novel
  • Back at your desk, look utterly dejected. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.
  • How often, gliding by in barrenness, has it cast a shade of unutterable dejection on the dial of a sunless day. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • But as the years passed, they became more gloomy and dejected, and I could see why during my visits.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Who's going to vote for Chicago in the first round besides Canada and Jamaica?" said 1960 Olympic gold medalist Bill Mulliken, walking dejectedly from the rally. Chicago supporters crushed, confused by early elimination
  • In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
  • Repeated failure had left them feeling very dejected.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
  • The joyful tortoise looked dejected. Times, Sunday Times
  • They found that those without had thrown fagots enough upon the fire to serve the purpose of light and heat at the same time, and, wrapping themselves in their cloaks, had sat down on the floor, in postures which variously expressed the discomposure and dejection of their minds. Quentin Durward
  • Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
  • With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself. Piccadilly Jim
  • I just feel kind of dejected and disoriented about a certain boi and a certain trip to a certain foreign country and the certain ramifications that might have on our certain relationship. Tuesday blues
  • When she sees or hears of injustice, the normally happy girl becomes so melancholy and dejected that it worries others.
  • A demoralized royalist party licked its wounds and tried to pay off its debts; a dejected majority of the old parliamentarian party grudgingly did what they were told but little more.
  • To further examine Gratia, it is necessary to consider events that happen before the play begins: as a woman, Gratia's position at court depended on her husband's, who was banished from court a few years prior, as shown in her exchange with Vindice where he says: The Duke did much deject him ... Final drafting stuff:
  • With the fare on offer here it is not easy not to feel dejected, even sad that the directors have been so parsimonious with their offerings to kids.
  • Brit managed a weak smile in Toby's direction, which he returned in equal measures of relief that he wouldn't be alone and dejection that he'd be without the rest of us.
  • Turnip, his basset hound puppy, was pacing around dejectedly with him.
  • These two great advantages may be made by those who frequently study poets; — the learning moderation, to keep them from unseasonable and foolish reproaching others with their misfortunes, when they themselves enjoy a constant current of prosperity; and magnanimity, that under variety of accidents they be not dejected nor disturbed, but meekly bear the being scoffed at, reproached, and drolled upon. Essays and Miscellanies
  • His legs gave out from under him and he sank to his knees, his whole form shaking, his shoulders slumped with pure dejection.
  • They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
  • As low, dejected and depressed as she'd ever felt, she began to get the morning's activities prepared.
  • Her mood changed from one of weary dejection to one of vigorous freshness.
  • The woman who lodged at the house of Tisamenas had a troublesome attack of iliac passion, much vomiting; could not keep her drink; pains about the hypochondria, and pains also in the lower part of the belly; constant tormina; not thirsty; became hot; extremities cold throughout, with nausea and insomnolency; urine scanty and thin; dejections undigested, thin, scanty. Of The Epidemics
  • For example, Ralph Nader recently wrote in his In the Public Interest column, To say as Obama inferred in his Oslo speech that the greater plunge into Afghanistan is self-defense, with proportional force and sparing civilians from violence is a scale of self-delusion or political cowardliness that is dejecting his liberal base. Anti-War Movement Wakes Up From Obama-Induced Slumber
  • Is it possible that _the bold adventurer can fix his thoughts on you_, and still be dejected _at the thoughts_ that a bonny blue-eyed lass looked favourably on a less-lucky fellow than himself?" vol. 2, p. 136. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827
  • But myself and the players are more dejected than anyone.
  • They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
  • There was still half an hour to go against a clearly demoralised and dejected team. The Sun
  • Immediately on the commencement had thirst, nausea, and cardialgia; tongue dry; bowels disordered, with thin and scanty dejections; had no sleep. Of The Epidemics

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