She shrugged her shoulders abjectly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : abject poverty. ,an abject coward. From Dictionary.com.
One form of communication we have failed in abjectly: that is in the teaching of languages. From Wordnik.com. [What Has Happened to The American Dream?] Reference
No cornered rat could have been more abjectly afraid. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Little Captain only after having apologized most abjectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
True humility is not cowardly, cringing, or abjectly weak. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Miriam, looking abjectly grateful and supremely ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
Which one is on TV abjectly apologizing and begging for mercy?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2009] Reference
"Go," she pleaded, so abjectly I knew she was upsetting herself. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
Mart, watching in wild astonishment, saw old Jerry crouch abjectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
We need, and abjectly so I may say, an esthetic concept of our own. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
He held the mirror up to the First's face, abjectly turning his aside. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
House shrinks from just now more abjectly than from charge of indecency. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
Casting down his eyes, he stood before her abjectly leaning on his cane. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
All this was circulated to soothe; but it failed abjectly in its purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"It's the cold!" gasped Mary, crying abjectly between her spasms of misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
And certainly Captain Blake could not be accused of abjectly worshiping her. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
"Oh, Heaven, forgive and keep me from it," said he, bowing his head abjectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
They crawled out of the room abjectly and I came out into the open once more. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
Lord Pelham spent a few minutes apologizing abjectly and with obvious embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Rick, Christianity has conducted itself in an abjectly evil manner from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [The God Debate] Reference
He'd apologize abjectly, be meek and attentive for a spell and then turn on the magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Plinktonians] Reference
And then there was a woman a couple of seats away from me who was absolutely abjectly weeping. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
He pointed down into No Man's Land, where a great crowd of men stood abjectly in the chilly sun. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He crawled out abjectly, and held up his hands for the handcuffs which Haskin at once fitted on. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
So abjectly did this magnate quail before the Word, with which Luther threatened to expose his doings. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Descending thus abjectly, as regarded the traitor, the Whigs were not unwilling to benefit by the treason. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Mrs. Shaw sailed out with flying colors, while Milly sank back abjectly into the seat from which she had risen. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
As he made his preparations in the tent he could not help seeing with compassion how abjectly her figure drooped. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
At length the revolted, who were chiefly soldiers, threw themselves upon their knees, and abjectly implored mercy. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
He is timid and scared to the last degree, and abjectly anxious to please if it does not entail too much exertion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
"They told me to put in lots of flying talk," he murmured abjectly, "and tons of local colour to make it lifelike.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919] Reference
"Only a half-decked little cutter of about two or three tons," answered the Captain abjectly, trying to minimise his offence. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
She received him sternly, but he was so abjectly penitent that she soon forgave him, and he returned to Roy with a relieved mind. From Wordnik.com. [His Big Opportunity] Reference
At least for another year or two, until we're completely so abjectly tired of it that we're ready to go back to "Suddenly Susan.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2003] Reference
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