Abjectly
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English
Etymology
From abject.
Pronunciation
Adverb
Abjectly (comparative more Abjectly, superlative most Abjectly)
- With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion.
- I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;
Antonyms
- (somewhat) proudly
Related terms
Translations
with great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion
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