All 8 Uses of
abject
in
Brave New World
- A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels.
p. 4.2abjectly = in an extremely submissive manner
- He pencilled his initials–two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond–and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.
p. 95.6abject = extremely submissive
- And the outbursts of an abject self-pity with which it alternated.
p. 99.5abject = extreme
- Henry Foster went out of his way to be friendly; Benito Hoover made him a present of six packets of sex-hormone chewing-gum; the Assistant Predestinator came out and cadged almost abjectly for an invitation to one of Bernard's evening parties.
p. 156.3abjectly = in an extremely submissive manner
- Pale, distraught, abject and agitated, he moved among his guests, stammering incoherent apologies, assuring them that next time the Savage would certainly be there, begging them to sit down and take a carotene sandwich, a slice of vitamin A pâté, a glass of champagne-surrogate.
p. 175.1abject = extremely low and submissive
- A look from Mustapha Mond reduced him to an abject silence.
p. 218.7 *abject = extremely submissive
- And in a paroxysm of abjection he threw himself on his knees before the Controller.
p. 226.6abjection = extreme submissiveness
- The young woman stood, smiling at him–an uncertain, imploring, almost abject smile.
p. 257.5abject = extremely submissive
Definition:
extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)