How To Use Dejected In A Sentence
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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
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“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
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Personally, I'm feeling as dejected, disappointed and scared as I am angry.
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Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected.
The Sun
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He hated how she made him think she accepted him, and then crushed all his hopes and smiled triumphantly as he walked away dejected.
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She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected.
The Sun
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But, yet again, I failed miserably and came away feeling dejected, disheartened, deflated and demoralised.
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A giant live oak tree shaded the west side of the house, a long-abandoned tire swing hanging dejectedly from a sturdy branch.
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He took a deep breath in, and let it out slowly, his chest falling dejectedly.
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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.
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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.
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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up towards the gallery, she perceived, in one of the furthest rows, young Melmond; his eye fixt upon their pew, but withdrawn the instant he was observed and his air the most melancholy and dejected.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
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But "-- dejectedly --" one feels so much more than one knows; and when I want to know, I am never satisfied.
The Heavenly Twins
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Dark blue, on the other hand, has a sedative effect, and can make some people feel melancholy and dejected.
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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
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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
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I sat down dejectedly next to him after he picked up his school bag.
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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
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She began to walk out the door but she heard him sink down on the bed dejectedly.
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They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
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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
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When she sees or hears of injustice, the normally happy girl becomes so melancholy and dejected that it worries others.
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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
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I ran a comb through my own hair and stared dejectedly at my reflection.
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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.
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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.
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A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
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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
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Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
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Kenworthy looked at the dejected cakes nominally protected from flies by sliding panels of smeared glass.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.
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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
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Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.
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Sarain sat dejectedly in the warm water, staring down at its steamy surface.
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She never looked dejected or dispirited, though she had all the reason.
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This is the party you could have if you only did something, instead of sitting here, feeling dejected, disconsolate and woebegone…
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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
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The story tapers off, leaving the reader disappointed and dejected by a work that promises much, but delivers little.
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His life's labor and meaning reduced to nothing, Cipriano returns home, dejected and depressed.
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Then, into this dejected council of two -- cheerful, decided, and aboundingly energetic swept Aunt Eliza.
The Moon out of Reach
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So the mouse returned to the house, head down dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
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Besieged by the headlines, he sits isolated in his own dejected box of darkness, looking like the face of mourning America.
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President Clinton is described as "dejected" by the turn of events
Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview
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I was thoroughly discouraged, so I turned away and flopped dejectedly onto my bed.
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She slumped dejectedly over the wheel.
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When he came back the following week he was totally dejected.
POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
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I sat clumsily on the floor and slumped against the wall dejectedly.
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I started tearing at my hair instead, staring dejectedly at the asphalt.
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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
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You'll have to limp home with an empty wallet, dejected.
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Karen runs up the stairs after her, as a defeated and dejected Mrs. Tilford slouches out the door.
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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.
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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
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They descended dejectedly into the hollow of the mountains, and found themselves once more immerged in woods.
The Italian
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They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
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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
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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
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He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
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Not yesterday; he finished a sad and dejected tenth.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, the mouse returned to the house and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
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Its hero, Milo, is perpetually dejected, burdened with motiveless discontent.
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He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they can't be bothered with you and look dejected or miserable, something is wrong.
Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
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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.
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Other carnivorous birds, especially the bluebirds, sat dejectedly on the fences waiting for spring.
Bird Cloud
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Back at your desk, look utterly dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He cut a dejected figure after the final whistle, standing alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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At half-time, we came in a bit dejected.
The Sun
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The little boy walked dejectedly down the cracked sidewalk.
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when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen
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Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
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If they can't be bothered with you and look dejected or miserable, something is wrong.
Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
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His writing on the last campaign trail was increasingly dejected but never downbeat.
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When he came back the following week he was totally dejected.
POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
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I've had a word with my supervisor," I begin dejectedly, knowing what's coming next.
FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 2)
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The inability of entering Western intellectual society made them feel dejected and depressed.
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Dejectedly, everyone fished out their keys and laid them silently in front of the headmaster.
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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
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She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected.
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As low, dejected and depressed as she'd ever felt, she began to get the morning's activities prepared.
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The families and relations of the victims, not surprisingly, became dejected and developed resentment for the government.
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Initially, we were dejected and nearly ‘bought’ his hard luck story; but a little questioning gave away his sheer malingering.
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Maybe they were dejectedly resigned to seeing another green field site disappear under tons of concrete?
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I, "dejectedly," haven't been in love for quite a long, long time now.
April's Lady A Novel
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Back at your desk, look utterly dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone has days when they feel dejected or down.
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But as the years passed, they became more gloomy and dejected, and I could see why during my visits.
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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
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Repeated failure had left them feeling very dejected.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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The joyful tortoise looked dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself.
Piccadilly Jim
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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
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When she sees or hears of injustice, the normally happy girl becomes so melancholy and dejected that it worries others.
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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.
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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.
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Turnip, his basset hound puppy, was pacing around dejectedly with him.
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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
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They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
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As low, dejected and depressed as she'd ever felt, she began to get the morning's activities prepared.
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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
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But myself and the players are more dejected than anyone.
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They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
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There was still half an hour to go against a clearly demoralised and dejected team.
The Sun
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They were thoroughly dejected and miserable.
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But as a wonderful dinner, a romantic walk on the pier and a tasty nightcap at a local pub passed, Sarah seemed to get dejected.
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is dejected but trying to look cheerful
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I went on standing in a rag-doll attitude of dejectedness, looking at the ground, but fighting an unexpectedly strong feeling of rebellion.
For Kicks
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He'll come back when the fifty pounds is exhausted," said he in a kind of dejected rage, "and when he does --" A clenched fist shaken at nothing terminated the speech and showed that the leopard could not change his spots.
The Opal Serpent
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Certainly not the blue heron, standing midleg deep in the water, obviously catching cold in a reckless disregard of wet feet and consequences; nor the mournful curlew, the dejected plover, or the low-spirited snipe, who saw fit to join him in his suicidal contemplation; nor the impassive kingfisher -- an ornithological Marius
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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‘The film is about a teenage daughter who tries to create a nonexistent boyfriend for her dejected mother,’ Robinson said.
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Christ or not, -- have any interest in the promise or not; and is attended with disconsolation and dejectedness of spirit, with real uncertainty of the event.
The Sermons of John Owen
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The words are equivalent in meaning to this: Do not reject my present petitions; do not send me from Thy throne of grace dejected in countenance and disappointed in heart. remember the mercies of David thy servant -- that is, the mercies promised to David, and in consideration of that promise, hear and answer my prayer (compare Ps 132: 10).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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On this occasion City accepted with relish the chances which came their way and inflicted serious psychological damage on their dejected opponents.
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If they can't be bothered with you and look dejected or miserable, something is wrong.
Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
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Screaming guitars and tortured wails were the tools used to pound the passion into each song and the listeners into dejected submission.
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She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected.
The Sun
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There was still half an hour to go against a clearly demoralised and dejected team.
The Sun
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I finish up my shopping, not whistling as much because the next song isn't as counterpoint-able really! that's why! and check out, feeling kind of dejected, you know.
Archive 2006-12-01
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Having claimed his full attention, she sighed aloud quite dejectedly.
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Reuters Giants quarterback Eli Manning walks dejectedly off the field after throwing an interception in the end zone.
Giants Their Own Worst Enemy
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One glance at the doctor's dejected expression answered my question.
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I pop to the Gents in the warehouse and tidy my ponytail, peering dejectedly at my sallow face in the soap-crusted, cracked glass.
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Vanessa watched on in dejected melancholy, wishing somewhere in the back of her mind that Jordan would argue like that with her.
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A lone tree sat dejectedly atop a small hill, overlooking a small lake that reflected the clouded sky above.
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He speaks to them as believers, as disconsolate, dejected believers, quickening their faith by exhortations; and gives them this promise as a solid foundation of peace and composedness of spirit, which he exhorted them unto.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Habanero nodded and then walked dejectedly back over to Darcy.
Master of Mirrors
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Not yesterday; he finished a sad and dejected tenth.
Times, Sunday Times
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It released Frank and slunk away, looking dejected, its long red tongue hanging out of its dribbling mouth.
DESPERADOES
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And it is said, that from that day he never cut his hair, nor shaved his beard, nor wore a garland, but was always full of sadness, grief, and dejectedness for the calamities of his country, and continually showed the same feeling to the last, whatever party had misfortune or success.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Her fore-legs were stiff and jointless, her hip-bones painfully prominent, her ribs sadly bare, and her nose hung dejectedly toward the ground; but she still possessed some mechanical power of locomotion, and the "shay" began to squeak and rattle in her wake.
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
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They have signified their intentions for next season already, out of swollen eyes and dejected hearts.
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'If it were not for what you call my disgusting pride, I should degenerate into that loathsome animal a sponge,' said Ida, rising suddenly from her dejected attitude, and standing up before her admiring little friend,
The Golden Calf
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At half-time, we came in a bit dejected.
The Sun
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Back at your desk, look utterly dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is all very well for you "-- dejectedly --" who are tired of gayety, to go into raptures over calmness and tranquillity, and that; but if you lived in Brooklyn from summer until winter and from winter back again to summer, and if you could count your balls on one hand, "-- holding up five wet open fingers, --" you would think just as I do, and long for change.
Molly Bawn
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She sighed as she looked at the price tag that put the dress well beyond her reach, and turned to walk away dejectedly.
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She cast a furtive glance over her shoulder and caught a glimpse of Alex's dejected and sullen expression.
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She returned to her sun lounger looking glum and dejected.
The Sun
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I wasn't used to this unhappy, dejected personality he'd cultivated and I wasn't entirely sure how to deal with it.
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The gutter on the shippon splashing its overflow on the flags of the yard, the hens crowding dejectedly within the open door of the henhouse, and the water lying green between the cobble-stones of the path.
Women of the Country
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Germany's fourth goal was all too much for Fähle-Hedge, who careered through his dejected rivals 'room, arms aloft, before disappearing out the door.
Soccer fans from England, Germany didn't forget to pack their allegiances
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The joyful tortoise looked dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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The joyful tortoise looked dejected.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘He was distracted, dejected, I just thought he had a broken heart,’ she said.
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Long queues of bored, dejected people stretched from the various desks.
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White also places a dead-looking tree behind the mother and child in his Hope for the Future but adds a noose; this and the mother's dejected pose -- her shoulders drooping, she holds the baby across her lap in the manner of a pieta -- make the title bitterly ironic.
Chicago Reader
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Not yesterday; he finished a sad and dejected tenth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dejectedly they tuck into the strawberry cornets before the van is taken to a scrapyard.