abject
adjective
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched.
abjectly
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a word derived from
abject.
Example Sentences
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The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Will Bayern keep going in Europe in a season when Germany’s top club has abjectly surrendered its Bundesliga title?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
Martinez found so much of herself in tapping into her abjectly silly, absurdist instincts through clown after starting in the stand-up scene in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
The ISC's initial inquiries failed abjectly to get to the bottom of events.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2020
“Please excuse me. Please excuse me,” she repeated abjectly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
