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abject

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Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.

But in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose.

Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure.

No, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure.

A more abject, humiliated man than I stand at this hour in my own eyes never yet took his sins upon his soul.

The energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.

In Scotland, even a beggar has none of those abject manners that denote his class elsewhere.

Meanwhile a sullen and abject melancholy took possession of his soul.

In the latter part of his reign, however, the Emperor passed under the dominion of the most abject superstition.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abject, such as: wretched, base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, and deplorable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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