abject
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definition
adjective
abject poverty
(of a situation or condition) extremely bad, unpleasant, and degrading.
an abject apology
(of a person or their behavior) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing.
example
By the time I got home to find my dad still missing, I was in 'abject' misery.
I actually sympathized with the United players, who seemed united in their 'abject' misery.
A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in 'abject' poverty and misery.
Regardless, it's always been 'abject' unhappiness that has derailed my train to health.
Both episodes were incredibly sad and tinged with 'abject' misery really.
The free market economy did not alleviate the 'abject' misery of the poor.
On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an 'abject' admission of parental failure.
I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write 'abject' apologies.
We cannot claim to be enjoying 15 years of Independence, while some groups live in ‘slavery’, misery and 'abject' poverty.
Now it was back to the bad old days of 'abject' surrender.
I compose 'abject' apologies in my head and fill out the registration form.
The 'abject' misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe.
The 'abject' misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
It is behaviour of such 'abject' venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
Just let me fall into bed and leave me to my 'abject' misery.
Surely no financial inducement can be worth such 'abject' loss of dignity.
The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his 'abject' subservience to the United States.
She stared at him in 'abject' terror before his face registered in her mind and she heaved a great sigh of relief and tried to hold in her tears of fear.
Apologies, official, 'abject' , routinely demanded, and formally offered, are considered not just a right but a requirement.
Adults who accompany their offspring to the local multiplex will be thrown into a state of 'abject' despair.
Thus imagine the extent to which, for three quarters of the planet's population, most of whom live in 'abject' and dire poverty, colonialism remains an even more tangible presence.
Are parallels to the anarchic sensibilities of our own 'abject' artists valid?
Since they are 'abject' human beings, he implies, he does not have to engage them at that level.
This enhances our shock when the 'abject' figure of Winston is finally revealed, stripped of all humanity.
Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced 'abject' poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips.
Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more 'abject' than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an 'abject' apology.
The setting is one of 'abject' poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
Isn't humiliation on your own TV network, followed by an 'abject' apology, enough?
People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and 'abject' misery.
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