Both Uses of
dejected
in
Gulliver's Travels
- They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habit; most of them telling me, "they died in poverty and disgrace, and the rest on a scaffold or a gibbet."†
Chpt 3 *
- He said, "they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(dejected) sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)