All 18 Uses of
abject
in
Lord Jim
- The verandah was empty by then, the noise and movement in court had ceased: a great silence fell upon the building, in which, somewhere far within, an oriental voice began to whine abjectly.†
Chpt 6 *
- Of course, as with belief, thought, love, hate, conviction, or even the visual aspect of material things, there are as many shipwrecks as there are men, and in this one there was something abject which made the isolation more complete—there was a villainy of circumstances that cut these men off more completely from the rest of mankind, whose ideal of conduct had never undergone the trial of a fiendish and appalling joke.†
Chpt 10
- As Stein's agent, after all, he must have had Doramin's protection in a measure; and in one way or another he had managed to wriggle through all the deadly complications, while I have no doubt that his conduct, whatever line he was forced to take, was marked by that abjectness which was like the stamp of the man.†
Chpt 29
- That was his characteristic; he was fundamentally and outwardly abject, as other men are markedly of a generous, distinguished, or venerable appearance.†
Chpt 29
- It was the element of his nature which permeated all his acts and passions and emotions; he raged abjectly, smiled abjectly, was abjectly sad; his civilities and his indignations were alike abject.†
Chpt 29
- It was the element of his nature which permeated all his acts and passions and emotions; he raged abjectly, smiled abjectly, was abjectly sad; his civilities and his indignations were alike abject.†
Chpt 29
- It was the element of his nature which permeated all his acts and passions and emotions; he raged abjectly, smiled abjectly, was abjectly sad; his civilities and his indignations were alike abject.†
Chpt 29
- It was the element of his nature which permeated all his acts and passions and emotions; he raged abjectly, smiled abjectly, was abjectly sad; his civilities and his indignations were alike abject.†
Chpt 29
- I am sure his love would have been the most abject of sentiments—but can one imagine a loathsome insect in love?†
Chpt 29
- And his loathsomeness, too, was abject, so that a simply disgusting person would have appeared noble by his side.†
Chpt 29
- Jim told me he had been received at first with an abject display of the most amicable sentiments.†
Chpt 29
- The sight of his abject grimacing was—Jim told me—very hard to bear: he clutched at his hair, beat his breast, rocked himself to and fro with his hands pressed to his stomach, and actually pretended to shed tears.†
Chpt 30
- If so, it was, in view of his contemplated action, an abject sign of a still imperfect callousness for which he must be given all due credit.†
Chpt 31
- "Honourable sir," he argued abjectly on the only occasion he managed to have me to himself—"honourable sir, how was I to know?†
Chpt 33
- He was perpetually slinking away; whenever seen he was seen moving off deviously, his face over his shoulder, with either a mistrustful snarl or a woe-begone, piteous, mute aspect; but no assumed expression could conceal this innate irremediable abjectness of his nature, any more than an arrangement of clothing can conceal some monstrous deformity of the body.†
Chpt 34
- He commenced by being abjectly lachrymose.†
Chpt 34
- The story also reveals unsuspected depths of cunning in the wretched Cornelius, whose abject and intense hate acts like a subtle inspiration, pointing out an unerring way towards revenge.†
Chpt 37
- Cornelius remained as mute as a fish, abject but faithful to his purpose, whose accomplishment loomed before him dimly.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(abject) extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)