All 3 Uses of
dejected
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He could respond to no earthly or human appeal, dumb and insensible to the call of summer and gladness and companionship, wearied and dejected by his father's voice.†
Chpt 2 *
- …as he sat in Davin's rooms in Grantham Street, wondering at his friend's well-made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair and repeating for his friend's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which were the veils of his own longing and dejection, the rude Firbolg mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again, drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention or by a quaint turn of old English speech or by the force of its delight in rude bodily…†
Chpt 5
- He felt with a smart of dejection that the man to whom he was speaking was a countryman of Ben Jonson.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(dejected) sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)