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abjectly

/ab-jekt, ab-jekt/US // ˈæb dʒɛkt, æbˈdʒɛkt //UK // (ˈæbdʒɛkt) //

卑躬屈膝地,卑鄙地,卑微地,卑贱地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
    • : contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
    • : shamelessly servile; slavish.
    • : Obsolete. cast aside.

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Examples

  • “All it is public humiliation of these abjectly poor people, as well as criminalization,” Cowan says.

  • The critics were fulsome in their praise and the public was lavish with its plaudits, but I was abjectly miserable.

  • And Thyrsis, in great distress of soul, explained that he did not mean it that way—he apologized abjectly for his obstinacy.

  • Invitations to the place even for a couple of days,—for twenty-four hours,—had been begged for abjectly.

  • He laid one fat hand upon the shoulder of the young poor priest who kneeled before him, abjectly.

  • Such sentiments as you have expressed, properly conveyed to them, would make yours abjectly half the bourgeois of France!