Sample Sentences for
abject
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    Dobby went scurrying in after him, crouching at the hem of his cloak, a look of abject terror on his face.  (source)
    abject = extreme (in a negative sense)
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    After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England.  (source)
    abject = extreme
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    When his underpants came down, it was with abject humiliation that he stood in the small, cool office.  (source)
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    We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission.  (source)
    abject = extremely submissive
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    With Salamander Army waiting abjectly for destruction, Leopard obligingly destroyed them.  (source)
    abjectly = in an extremely negative manner (hopelessness, miserable, and shamed)
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    In a frenzy he poured joyous abjectness on paper to send to her, and he went to bed purified, as a man is after sexual love.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    His abjection made Lancelot feel horrible.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    These bare feet, these bare arms, these rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be employed in the conquest of the ideal.†  (source)
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    A look from Mustapha Mond reduced him to an abject silence.  (source)
    abject = extremely submissive
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    He is abjectly terrified.†  (source)
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    And while Mrs. Anticol stayed pious, it was his idea of grand apostasy to drive to the reform synagogue on the high holidays and park his pink-eye nag among the luxurious, whirl-wired touring cars of the rich Jews who bared their heads inside as if they were attending a theater, a kind of abjectness in them that gave him grim entertainment to the end of his life.†  (source)
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    All the abjection and self-hatred are designed, in the long run, solely for this end; unless they attain this end they do us little harm; and they may even do us good if they keep the man concerned with himself, and, above all, if self-contempt can be made the starting-point for contempt of other selves, and thus for gloom, cynicism, and cruelty.†  (source)
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    Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.  (source)
    abject = extremely bad
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