Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an abject, mean, or servile manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Meanly; servilely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a hopeless resigned manner
Examples
“One form of communication we have failed in abjectly: that is in the teaching of languages.”
“He was to live, it appeared, abominably worried, he was to live consciously rueful, he was to live perhaps even what a scoffing world would call abjectly exposed; but at least he was to live saved.”
“Oh! (_He fetches up two coins abjectly from his pocket_).”
“Thus it was amazing to me how quickly, faced with the possible loss of the most important person in the world, I overcame my puritan principles and called abjectly for help.”
“I remember one man they dragged out of a heap, who pleaded abjectly until a revolver shot cut him short.”
“Beyond doubt, the boy had broken the taboos, and privily he told him so, until Lamai trembled and wept and squirmed abjectly at his feet, for the penalty was death.”
“Once before he had tried Spencer, and choosing the "Principles of Psychology" to begin with, he had failed as abjectly as he had failed with Madam Blavatsky.”
“Just the first line of your last post was so utterly ludicrous and abjectly stupid I am ashamed to be the same species as someone as bone chillingly ignorant as you.”
“It is a proud conservative position to tell lies and be proud of how abjectly stupid YOU are”
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“As yet your unbroken string of NOTHING but abjectly ignorant posts is still intact.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘abjectly’.
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A 1, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect, A level and 254 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Venus In Furs
disinter, subjugate, sober down, domineering, wantonly, coquettish, cossack, maxim, pasha, anvil, hoarfrost, carpathian and 51 more...
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Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
mendaciously, abjectly, battened, attrition, quelling, shill, blithely, hoy, rapine, pontificating, patrician, colloquy and 15 more...
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CLEP Lit
Words I learned while studying for the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP test.
obsequiously, abjectly, obsequious, obstreperous, extirpate, antipathy, inveterate, scrip, acquiescent, demivolte, coppice, equanimity and 18 more...
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words I have looked up
Words I have looked up
adroit, alacrity, atazir, Collusion, roil, Happenstance, gigmanity, Peripeteia, Gregarious, abjectly, meritocracy, vamoose and 2 more...
Tweets
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Noelle Knight "'Scuse me,' I said abjectly, putting my tray on the bar and meeting Terry's eyes briefly."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris May 18, 2011