I went on standing in a rag-doll attitude of dejectedness, looking at the ground, but fighting an unexpectedly strong feeling of rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Kicks]

They want us to be afflicted by our helplessness and dejectedness keeping us down and feel like slaves although we just want to feel like and be treated like human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wooster Collective: Crimes and Misdemeanors Archives] Reference

Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions] Reference

And it is said, that from that day he never cut his hair, nor shaved his beard, nor wore a garland, but was always full of sadness, grief, and dejectedness for the calamities of his country, and continually showed the same feeling to the last, whatever party had misfortune or success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

After the subsiding of the first surprise and indignation the agitation of his own thoughts too much occupied John's mind to admit of his being much diverted by the sorrows of his black boy; and Tom was too much affected by the dejectedness of his friend to entertain any lasting concern for the sable sufferer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

Usborne admits he knew the series would be dark; capturing dejectedness, anger and sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piccadilly Jim] Reference

His tone was serious, there was a dejectedness in his manner, and with it, as was evident, much smothered emotion in his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

She had come out of her dejectedness with a shrewder view of Dacier; equally painful, for it killed her romance, and changed the garden of their companionship in imagination to a waste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

We continued, environed as it were by the objects that most powerfully inspire fear; by the darkness of night, the tumult of the elements, the utter ignorance of where we were or by what objects surrounded, and the dejectedness which our situation inspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

A long, low, rambling affair resembling in dejectedness the drooping gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man to Man] Reference

Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrow, and a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Part of a Man's Life: Books Unread] Reference

A certainty, it would be of use to send this down to the fleete, and to cause it to be spread about the fleete, for the recovering of the spirits of the officers and seamen; who are under great dejectedness for want of knowing that they did do any thing against the enemy, notwithstanding all that they did to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

Upon which Sir W. Coventry did publickly move, that if his Royal Highness had this of a certainty, it would be of use to send this down to the fleete, and to cause it to be spread about the fleete, for the recovering of the spirits of the officers and seamen; who are under great dejectedness for want of knowing that they did do any thing against the enemy, notwithstanding all that they did to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666] Reference

Sally, "to whom he acknowledges that the company of the" very agreeable young lady, sister-in-law of Col. George Fairfax, "in a great measure cheers his sorrow and dejectedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference

But how John expresses his inner howls of wretchedness are the stuff of which loneliness and dejectedness is guaranteed, as demonstrated by an early scene in which John attends a party at the behest of Jamie (Keener.    From Wordnik.com.  [FlickFilosopher.com] Reference