abject
adjective
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched.
abjectness
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a word derived from
abject.
Example Sentences
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The issue of women’s equality, she wrote, has little to do with the “relative benevolence or ill-will of individual men, nor the self-confidence or abjectness of individual women.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2018
Onion: Right, it was that Teflon quality that always made their abjectness palatable for me before.
From Slate ● May 30, 2013
She is great at feet, too – at clunky shoes, elegant brogues, baby feet and the abjectness of men in socks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010
Finding it, his life really begins and his abjectness towards his wife is at an end.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louie only wanted to cover her up again as quickly as possible—her confessions, her abjectness, her appalling artlessnesses, her humiliating appeals.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
