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sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)

She is dejected but trying to look cheerful.

dejected = sad and depressed

She is feeling dejected, but I think her world will look better after a good night's sleep.

dejected = sad and depressed

"I don't have any money left," I said to her dejectedly.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

dejectedly = with low spirits

Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly.
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)

"I guess I do think about it occasionally," The Giver said. "I think about my own release when I'm in an awful lot of pain. I wish I could put in a request for it, sometimes. But I'm not permitted to do that until the new Receiver is trained."
"Me," Jonas said in a dejected voice. He was not looking forward to the end of the training, when he would become the new Receiver.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

dejected = sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)

"That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Wait you here, Sarpent," said Deerslayer as he followed in the footsteps of the dejected beauty, while passing his friend.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
"Don't let me disturb you," he went on, looking at her dejected pillar.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Well, I am your theme; you have the start of me; I am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh flannel.
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
They elected Winslow to tell me this, and he stood in front of me with puppy dog eyes relaying the collective dejection of the group.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir

(editor's note: 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 went to the Saturday-night parties hoping she might make an appearance and went home dejected because she didn't.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Then he allowed his arm to sink slowly, and gazed at the pavement in profound dejection.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

His face wore a look of dejection and despair.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street

The latter, he was informed, was very feeble, and in a state of deep dejection.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur

They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
They were dejected by their play, wounded by their coach's comments, unsure of what to do next.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
The little one, not more than four or five, was on his knees, his hands folded, and his close-clipped, bare head drooping forward in deep dejection.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

In the mingled light and gloom of an adjacent park, a handful of wet wanderers, in attitudes of chronic dejection, was scattered among the benches.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

In the palm was a seated woman in a posture of dejection—was the model the Staff Probationer?
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

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