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  • I returned to our hotel room, dejected that I had just performed poorly with one of the firms I really wanted to work for.†   (source)
  • Their chests and backs are splattered with blue and pink paint, and they look dejected.†   (source)
  • There was an expression of such dejection on her face that even to be in the room felt like intruding.†   (source)
  • Minho looked down, his eyes dejected.†   (source)
  • Dejected, she opened the final drawer and pulled aside some black clothes she had never seen him wear.†   (source)
  • But we haven't got it, and this year's the last chance we'll get to finally see our name on the thing.... Wood spoke so dejectedly that even Fred and George looked sympathetic.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, sir," Reynie said, his hopefulness slipping into dejection.†   (source)
  • As soon as she saw Hanna, sitting dejectedly on the bench with the cuffs still on her hands, she nodded.†   (source)
  • Even the other girls, heartbroken as they are, sit back with only dejected shrugs.†   (source)
  • I tilt my head toward his and look at him dejectedly as he stands up and pulls his shirt back on.†   (source)
  • He was seventeen or eighteen and, I noticed dejectedly, as handsome as a matinee idol.†   (source)
  • Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.†   (source)
  • He looked so dejected, sad and tired that Hana and George didn't argue.†   (source)
  • I stood and watched them, the once confident troops now dejected prisoners of the Soviets.†   (source)
  • "That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.†   (source)
  • He could stay at camp and learn to be part of the Hephaestus cabin, but he wondered how long it would be before he looked like his bunkmates—sad, dejected, convinced of his own bad luck.†   (source)
  • His absolute dejection was clear.†   (source)
  • His face wore a look of dejection and despair.†   (source)
  • But you mustn't be dejected.†   (source)
  • Ender walked back into the room, looking dejected.†   (source)
  • I sat there on the toilet, fully dressed, long after I was through, my tears leaving dark spots on the red of my apron, and I felt utterly dejected.†   (source)
  • But no, my boss just said: I guess you know, unfortunately, why I called you in here, rubbing his eyes under his glasses, to show how weary and dejected he was.†   (source)
  • It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape.†   (source)
  • I was feeling so dejected that even Mr. Arashino seemed to recognize it, and sent me on an errand to purchase sewing needles at the dry goods store thirty minutes away.†   (source)
  • Two minutes before, I hadn't even wanted to celebrate, but now I was feeling dejected and insulted at being relegated to a midweek dinner at the same place we always went to.†   (source)
  • Kris was sitting on the curb, cradling her head in her hands, a dejected look on her face.†   (source)
  • At that, Colton's scowl melted into a dejected frown, and his shoulders slumped toward the floor.†   (source)
  • I let my shoulders slump, dejected.†   (source)
  • I opened the door into the garage and the first thing I spotted was Marley, lying on his carpet, looking dejected.†   (source)
  • I sank on my mattress, utterly dejected, and lay there until something new came to my ears: the voices of women and children, sounds I had not heard for months, women and children talking calmly just as if nothing had happened.†   (source)
  • We reported back to base, dejected.†   (source)
  • Her old arrogance lurked behind those words, a startling difference from her barely suppressed dejection up to now.†   (source)
  • They literally wiped the smiles off their races along with the sweat, and returned, dejected, to then* barracks.†   (source)
  • They were dejected by their play, wounded by their coach's comments, unsure of what to do next.†   (source)
  • As dejected as I was with our inability to perform those little details that could have won the game for us, I walked away from the LSU game feeling really good.†   (source)
  • But she had never seen him as gloomy and dejected as he seemed to be now in the hour of his defeat.†   (source)
  • My father was dejected about his sons leaving, and he drank more than before.†   (source)
  • There they found him, at Clara's insistence, looking every bit like a dejected sheep, exactly as she had described him on her slate.†   (source)
  • The carpenter had just taken his measurements for the coffin, and at his side, still wearing the dress of a newly-wed grandmother that she had put on for the party, Fermina Daza was introspective and dejected.†   (source)
  • A dejection, a sorry gloom.†   (source)
  • He didn't seem irritated or offended or dejected at all.†   (source)
  • RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection†   (source)
  • "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," he remarked one day as he walked dejectedly home from school.†   (source)
  • In the palm was a seated woman in a posture of dejection—was the model the Staff Probationer?†   (source)
  • She carried Evan to the second bedroom at the rear of the house, the kids' room, with bright blue wallpaper and toys littering the floor and a mobile of the solar system hanging dejectedly from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He trails off, dejected.†   (source)
  • Allen O'Brien was looking dejectedly at the few buildings that made up Lonesome Dove.†   (source)
  • Another thump as Mallory slumped, dramatically and dejectedly, against the seat behind her.†   (source)
  • Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.†   (source)
  • Taking full responsibility for their family problems and the breakup of their circle of friends, Christian was in the dumps, his dejection compounded by the recent loss of his good friend Mark Carter, a SEAL in his squadron who had been killed by an IED.†   (source)
  • We walked out of the sideshow the way we'd come, dejected, past the now-empty stages, past the plain-looking boy, out of the tent and into the daylight.†   (source)
  • Amy seemed dejected but resigned.†   (source)
  • Dejectedly, I replaced the screen so that Moody would not notice.†   (source)
  • Max slouched dejectedly on the bed.†   (source)
  • Before loading me onto a Greyhound bus, Father mumbled in a dejected voice, "Get out of here, David.†   (source)
  • Most of the adults he saw and talked to were clearly dejected.†   (source)
  • In almost every barn, stable, shed, and even under the fences and bushes, were the sick to be seen, whose countenances were but an index of the dejection of spirit and the distress they endured.†   (source)
  • They were all gone, and he walked right out and moved in wistful dejection through the dark, emptying streets.†   (source)
  • He walked in front with Frodo; next came Merry and Pippin; and last came Sam leading the pony, which was laden with as much of their baggage as they had the heart to give it; but already it looked less dejected, as if it approved of the change in its fortunes.†   (source)
  • "They're gone," Arya said, dejected.†   (source)
  • joy even); however, blowfish jeer insightful garfish, disparaging inappropriately, doing damage, even insulting benevolent, charming, jovial garfish, hurting and frustrating deeply; joy fades but hurt feelings bring just grief; inevitable irritation hastens feeling blue; however, jovial children declare happiness, blowfishes' evil causes dejection, blues accordingly, always glorify jolly, friendly garfish!]†   (source)
  • Friendless, dejected, and hungry, he threw himself down in the manure and sobbed.†   (source)
  • "Andrew," I say dejectedly.†   (source)
  • It's hard to want a girl who looks at you like you're a lost puppy she wants to take home and feed or a dejected child who needs to curl up in her lap and be coddled.†   (source)
  • I must have looked very dejected because Yoyo sat and took both my hands in his.†   (source)
  • I glared over at our third baseman, who was standing near Mr. Galanter and looking very dejected.†   (source)
  • He looked strangely dejected.†   (source)
  • They sat dejectedly on the curb.†   (source)
  • The colonel was now almost dejected.†   (source)
  • His shoulders, held so high and square, folded dejectedly.†   (source)
  • 1) Vladimir and Estragon all attention, Pozzo dejected and disgusted.†   (source)
  • When he finally did depart, alone, he was the picture of disappointment and dejection, with head and tail both held so low that he seemed to slink away.†   (source)
  • At any rate, when Leslie and I made our way back to the beach the late-afternoon light, still quivering with heat waves, flooded the sand around the lifeguard tower from which the dejected group of analysands had now departed, leaving behind them a half-buried copy of Partisan Review, squeezed-out tubes of nose balm and a litter of Coke bottles.†   (source)
  • If I look a little troubled, it is because just now, in that room, I became very dejected.†   (source)
  • "Never," I protested, a little frightened by his dejection.†   (source)
  • Finally, the one in the middle said, "She'd kill us," and turned, dejected and hacked, and climbed up on the pen and hung over, staring in.†   (source)
  • The employees watched the operation dejectedly, and their feelings seemed to infect the pharmacist's thin, mangy mare watching sadly from her stable.†   (source)
  • Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly.   (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
  • "I can't find any good joke books," she said dejectedly.†   (source)
  • S.Q. Pedalian looked down upon them dejectedly.†   (source)
  • "Champion goat boy," he muttered dejectedly.†   (source)
  • "Hello, Reverend Sullivan," I said dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Finally, she croaked, "Done," and shuffled off dejectedly toward the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The smee drooped like a soggy croissant and sipped dejectedly at his drink.†   (source)
  • She sat on her IKEA pillow in the window seat and dejectedly watched the lights outside.†   (source)
  • "It's not the same thing," I say dejectedly.†   (source)
  • It 'really would be just our luck," Valya sniffled dejectedly, hugging her shawl.†   (source)
  • "Well, anyway, let's go back now," said Hazel, rather dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Max turned to see Toby sitting dejectedly on a small bench that had been placed for visitors.†   (source)
  • When no one spoke, Toby changed back into his native form and gazed about dejectedly.†   (source)
  • The imp slid dejectedly from his seat and bowed low "A thousand apologies, my lord.†   (source)
  • I shook my head dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Grover walked dejectedly toward us.†   (source)
  • When they reached the mess hall, they found the others—Percy, Annabeth, and Frank—sitting dejectedly around the dining table.†   (source)
  • Well, that's it, he thought dejectedly.†   (source)
  • He sniffled dejectedly.†   (source)
  • "No," the boys said dejectedly.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I said dejectedly, "that's okay.†   (source)
  • "Thanks, Mom," I said dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Most of them fluttered away and perched in the trees around the square, staring dejectedly at the picnic table.†   (source)
  • He shook his head dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Bublanski shook his head dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Bill the pony stood patiently but dejectedly in front of the hobbits, and screened them a little; but before long the drifting snow was above his hocks, and it went on mounting.†   (source)
  • Without stopping or looking up, Milo dashed past the buildings and busy shops that lined the street and in a few minutes reached home—dashed through the lobby—hopped onto the elevator—two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and off again—opened the apartment door—rushed into his room—flopped dejectedly into a chair, and grumbled softly, Another long afternoon.†   (source)
  • As he walked dejectedly back to the dugout, he passed right in front of Rose who motioned him to come closer.†   (source)
  • He looked about dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Nately nodded dejectedly.†   (source)
  • There, Tommy Brannick had left his father and teammates behind and sat dejectedly in the shadow of his dad's Buick.†   (source)
  • As Hazel and Fiver made their way dejectedly down the run outside the Threarah's burrow, they could just hear, from inside, the Chief Rabbit's voice assuming a rather sharper note, interspersed with an occasional "Yes, sir,"†   (source)
  • Now that it's cooler he feels less dejected.†   (source)
  • Her tone is so dejected that Simon feels a tender pity for her.†   (source)
  • She went to sit on the hood of her Porsche, her face dejected.†   (source)
  • But there's nothing on," he said, sounding dejected.†   (source)
  • We'd all be around our tree, dejected that I wasn't a princess but blissfully happy to be together.†   (source)
  • The dejected doorman blew his nose loudly in a Westing Man-Sized Hankie.†   (source)
  • Why then does he feel so dejected, so bereft?†   (source)
  • I let him lead me back to the transport, feeling suddenly dejected.†   (source)
  • After breakfast on that day I was strangely dejected.†   (source)
  • "Maxon," I whispered, seeing how dejected he looked at my lack of an answer.†   (source)
  • Yeah, you're right," he mumbled, and turned, dejected, to walk back to his seat.†   (source)
  • He was hungry, tired, dejected, and now humiliated.†   (source)
  • It looked dejected, no longer so ready to pounce, slumped and crumpled along the broad branch.†   (source)
  • Dejected, Berger rested her head on her hands.†   (source)
  • He smiled, holding my glance, trying to lift me out of my sudden, unexplained dejection.†   (source)
  • He was past being frightened, he'd entered full-blown dejection.†   (source)
  • I blushed a little as Aspen walked in the doorway, a dejected Lucy close behind.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was me, but I thought he sounded pretty dejected.†   (source)
  • Then, noticing Jimmy's dejection, he said, "Come on, you did okay, the place is famous."†   (source)
  • Sticky grew more dejected with Reynie's every question.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," I said, feeling proud and dejected at exactly the same time.†   (source)
  • Miss Kenton continued to look very dejected.†   (source)
  • Mouse was just as dejected and confused as he was.†   (source)
  • Dejected, Senator Trueba signed the paper.†   (source)
  • Feelings of dejection and bitterness would come and go for a long time.†   (source)
  • He noticed that everyone they passed looked shocked and dejected.†   (source)
  • Instead, he saw a face made lifeless by an odd dejection.†   (source)
  • This was amusing, but overall the collective mood was dejected—we were missing out.†   (source)
  • "I know," Svensson said, sounding dejected.†   (source)
  • He dropped down on the edge of a couch, in a posture of helpless dejection.†   (source)
  • Max studied the dejected, sniffling goblin.†   (source)
  • In the thundery twilight, Blackavar looked more sick and dejected than ever.†   (source)
  • He was dashing and dejected, poised and chagrined.†   (source)
  • "Well, why would I do that?" the dejected thing mused.†   (source)
  • Yossarian and Orr walked from the barbershop in dejection.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, dear,' Yossarian murmured in heavy dejection, the blood draining from his face.†   (source)
  • The chaplain waited in patient dejection when Yossarian and Dunbar both broke into laughter.†   (source)
  • I didn't know what to do and Father was completely dejected.†   (source)
  • Such was the darkness in his soul, such was his dejection.†   (source)
  • Langdon flashed on Dürer's Melencolia I—the image of the dejected Adept, surrounded by the tools of his failed efforts to unveil the mystical secrets of alchemy.†   (source)
  • Finally Harry tried getting angry again in the hope of provoking Ron into a defiant, and hopefully goal-saving, attitude, but this strategy did not appear to work any better than encouragement; Ron went to bed as dejected and hopeless as ever.†   (source)
  • His team members were around him, shaking their heads and looking dejected; a short way away, the Irish players were dancing gleefully in a shower of gold descending from their mascots.†   (source)
  • But all I saw was his blond hair as he stared into his lap, his dejected frown the only thing visible.†   (source)
  • He looked dejected.†   (source)
  • She was gushy, or as gushy as her dejected nature would allow, on the subject of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; also E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk Princess.†   (source)
  • Huddled next to it was a dejected-looking boy in tattered jeans, a black shirt, and an old aviator jacket.†   (source)
  • As dejected as I'd felt, as embarrassed as I'd been, when he offered me that moment, I had to take it.†   (source)
  • There was a vast dim dining room with William Morris wallpaper, the Strawberry Thief design, and a chandelier entwined with bronze water-lilies, and three high stained-glass windows, shipped in from England, showing episodes from the story of Tristan and Iseult (the proffering of the love potion, in a ruby-red cup; the lovers, Tristan on one knee, Iseult yearning over him with her yellow hair cascading — hard to render in glass, a little too much like a melting broom; Iseult alone, dejected, in purple draperies, a harp nearby).†   (source)
  • Dejected, I gave up.†   (source)
  • Under the old dispensation, sexual competition had been relentless and cruel: for every pair of happy lovers there was a dejected onlooker, the one excluded.†   (source)
  • Throughout their conversation, Sticky's expression had grown more and more dejected, his big eyes sadder and sadder, so that at last his face had taken on the exact gloomy look of that miserable man Milligan.†   (source)
  • He felt dejected.†   (source)
  • Maybe some dust rises from the site and maybe it is only afternoon haze and several people point and comment briefly and there is a flatness in the group, an unspoken dejection, and after a while we go back inside.†   (source)
  • That Adams's fatigue and "dejection of spirits" of that summer could have made him vulnerable to such a collapse is certainly possible.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He added, "The ardor of the troops encouraged me in this hazardous enterprise," and this could be the explanation, though an American who saw the British troops waiting on the wharf to embark, commented that "they looked in general pale and dejected, and said to one another it would be another Bunker Hill or worse."†   (source)
  • When she saw her grandfather, Alba was troubled; she had not seen him so dejected since the day Clara died.†   (source)
  • Sons of Liberty dejected.†   (source)
  • In the music of the North, sadness prolonged joy far less, and in dejection no light appeared against the dark.†   (source)
  • Most susceptible to the disease, it was thought, were those of "weak nerves," or who had experienced a "long dejection of spirits," or who had been "confined long in damp and foul air."†   (source)
  • If a child bobbled a ball or threw it to the wrong base, his dad would spit some chaw and look as dejected as if his son had been diagnosed with some shameful disease.†   (source)
  • This is always attended with a sort of heaviness and dejection of spirit [wrote Dr. John Huxham, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, in a treatise published in 1779] .†   (source)
  • Nicolo sank back, half in dejection.†   (source)
  • For example, I have tried everything I can think of to confuse this pinlegs' settings— block incoming signals, manipulate outgoing signals.... He trailed off, looking utterly worn and dejected.†   (source)
  • This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.†   (source)
  • Every night, Alessandro would go home, and in the space between his arrival and the time when he had to leave for work he would sit in dejection, his head bent.†   (source)
  • All were dejected and wretched.†   (source)
  • Rowsby Woof was quiet and dejected and did not even notice the smell of rabbit, which anyway was all mixed up with the smell of the fire and the larder.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was conceited because he was a full colonel with a combat command at the age of only thirty-six; and Colonel Cathcart was dejected because although he was already thirty-six he was still only a full colonel.†   (source)
  • Back on the ground, every eye watched grimly as he walked in dull dejection up to Captain Black outside the green clapboard briefing room to make his intelligence report and learned that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn were waiting to speak to him inside.†   (source)
  • Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection.†   (source)
  • So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I looked dejected, for one of the women said consolingly, "They were sharp-tongued tonight, probably they were tired ....you must not mind."†   (source)
  • During the preparations, while the site was bought and cleared, and a contractor engaged to fmd men and material, he spent his time with Kenny, and what they discussed I do not know, but sometimes he came home elated and sometimes he was morose and dejected; and it was clear enough that the many delays they encountered irked his spirit beyond the telling.†   (source)
  • The horse stood with head drooping dejectedly and refused to start.†   (source)
  • The crowd dispersed somewhat dejectedly.†   (source)
  • "This is a fine mess," thought Scarlett dejectedly.†   (source)
  • Unemployed men loitered in doorways with blank looks in their eyes, sat dejectedly on front steps in shabby clothing, congregated in sullen groups on street corners, and filled all the empty benches in the parks of Chicago's South Side.†   (source)
  • McGLOIN—(dejectedly) Yes, once Bessie's relations get their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't gone.†   (source)
  • It was nearly nine o'clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill.†   (source)
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