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  • "I don't have any money left," I said to her dejectedly.  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits
  • Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly.  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
  • Meanwhile, Medea--the Fates fully against her and feeling totally dejected--screams and cries out at him, asking him to remember his promises to her.  (source)
    dejected = sad and without hope
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  • Dejected, she stood there in all her plumpness, holding the wooden spoon at her side like a club.†  (source)
  • There was an expression of such dejection on her face that even to be in the room felt like intruding.†  (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.
  • I tilt my head toward his and look at him dejectedly as he stands up and pulls his shirt back on.†  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
  • The maid had orders to make me some chocolate in the morning before she came away, and did so, and at noon she brought me the sweetbread of a breast of veal, whole, and a dish of soup for my dinner; and after this manner she nursed me up at a distance, so that I was mightily well pleased, and quickly well, for indeed my dejections before were the principal part of my illness.†  (source)
    dejections = instances of being sad
  • Their chests and backs are splattered with blue and pink paint, and they look dejected.†  (source)
  • His face wore a look of dejection and despair.†  (source)
  • As soon as she saw Hanna, sitting dejectedly on the bench with the cuffs still on her hands, she nodded.†  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
  • Then they flouted me with my dejections, welcomed me to the place, wished me joy, bid me have a good heart, not to be cast down, things might not be so bad as I feared, and the like; then called for brandy, and drank to me, but put it all up to my score, for they told me I was but just come to the college, as they called it, and sure I had money in my pocket, though they had none.†  (source)
    dejections = instances of being sad
  • The crew was dejected—they wanted to go on looking.†  (source)
  • Her old arrogance lurked behind those words, a startling difference from her barely suppressed dejection up to now.†  (source)
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