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Definition
sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)
- Since eight o'clock she had been trying on and rejecting dresses, and now she stood dejected and irritable in lace pantalets, linen corset cover and three billowing lace and linen petticoats.1.5 (5% in)
- ...convalescents limped about on crutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fields where the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight of Yankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter pointed with his whip to a detachment of dejected-looking bluecoats being shepherded toward the depot by a squad of Confederates with fixed bayonets, to entrain for the prison camp.2.8 (35% in)
- The horse stood with head drooping dejectedly and refused to start.3.24 (34% in)
- "This is a fine mess," thought Scarlett dejectedly.4.32 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "dejected" in Gone with the Wind.
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