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abjectly

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ab·ject  (bjkt, b-jkt)
adj.
1. Brought low in condition or status. See Synonyms at mean2.
2. Being of the most contemptible kind: abject cowardice.
3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty.

[Middle English, outcast, from Latin abiectus, past participle of abicere, to cast away : ab-, from; see ab-1 + iacere, to throw; see y- in Indo-European roots.]

abjectly adv.
ab·jectness, ab·jection n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.abjectly - in a hopeless resigned mannerabjectly - in a hopeless resigned manner; "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly"
Translations
abjectly [ˈæbdʒektlɪ] ADV [fail] → de la forma más indigna, miserablemente
he apologized abjectlyse deshizo en disculpas
abjectly miserablesumamente desgraciado
to be abjectly poorvivir en la miseria más absoluta
abjectly [ˈæbdʒɛktli] adv
[fail] → d'une manière pitoyable
[apologize] → platement
abjectly
adv submit, apologizedemütig; failkläglich; miserable, afraiderbärmlich
abjectly [ˈæbʒɛktlɪ] (frm) adv (behave, apologize) → bassamente, servilmente; (lie, act) → indegnamente, vilmente


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Augusta (replied the noble Youth) I thought you had a better opinion of me, than to imagine I would so abjectly degrade myself as to consider my Father's Concurrence in any of my affairs, either of Consequence or concern to me.
At the same time he feels his mastery, and is abjectly grateful to him in his own simple love of the good for his patronage of the unassuming virtues.
But Porthos stands in his bath drooping abjectly like a shamed figure cut out of some limp material.
 
 
 
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