Sample Sentences for
dejected
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    "I don't have any money left," I said to her dejectedly.  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits
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    Lennie sat down on the ground and hung his head dejectedly.  (source)
    dejectedly = with low spirits (sadness, disappointment, hopelessness)
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    Their chests and backs are splattered with blue and pink paint, and they look dejected.†  (source)
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    Ender walked back into the room, looking dejected.†  (source)
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    Her old arrogance lurked behind those words, a startling difference from her barely suppressed dejection up to now.†  (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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    "That ship hated me," he said dejectedly, indicating the policecraft.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Dejected, she stood there in all her plumpness, holding the wooden spoon at her side like a club.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Dejectedly, I replaced the screen so that Moody would not notice.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The dejected doorman blew his nose loudly in a Westing Man-Sized Hankie.†  (source)
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    There was an expression of such dejection on her face that even to be in the room felt like intruding.†  (source)
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