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abject
1. adj. Abject.
abject poverty
2. n. (Désuet) Personne rejetée, méprisée.
3. v. (Désuet) Rejeter.
anglais > anglais
abject
1. adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
2. adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
3. adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
4. adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
5. n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

Exemples de phrases

It will be an abject humiliation for the prime minister.  Only two years ago, it was grey and grim, rotting rubbish piled high in the streets, the fetid stench of abject poverty.

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