All 8 Uses of
abject
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- For the present I will only say that this "landowner"—for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless.†
Chpt 1 *
- Am I so abject?†
Chpt 7
- What an abject heart!†
Chpt 7
- To my abject heart!†
Chpt 7
- And I've been crying for five years, damned fool, abject, shameless I was!"†
Chpt 8
- Because Smerdyakov is a man of the most abject character and a coward.†
Chpt 9
- The captain was abject in his flattery of Kolya.†
Chpt 10
- His abject and servile characteristics disappeared, his malicious and sarcastic cynicism was all that remained.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)