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Meanings of abject in English
Synonyms
Examples for "low"
Examples for "low"
1
Health officials say the public health risk has been assessed as low.
2
Cases mostly involved young people, with a low proportion of severe cases.
3
Conclusions: Consumption of soy products is low in centres in Western Europe.
4
Crime is at a 12-year low in Northern Ireland, police said today.
5
The extremely low rate of community testing has public health experts worried.
1
It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
2
You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
3
He was miserable; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4
The idea-themiserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
1
By Odin, the women of the North Danes are a scurvy breed.
2
The Finlanders were not attacked with scurvy, but the rest suffered severely.
3
His scurvy-ravaged legs gave under him and he winced with the pain.
4
Of remedies against scurvy the sweet-wort was proved to be most valuable.
5
In infants this is most often due to scurvy, sometimes to syphilis.
1
Regular criminals might be scumbags, but they were scummy in human ways.
2
The water must be thoroughly scummy. It's like the gift of tongues!
3
They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water.
4
The lantern's light gleamed on something else under the scummy water.
5
Courtney and I went up a scummy set of back stairs.
1
She disgraced the family you know; ran away with that low-down printer.
2
You think I'm that low-down to leave her while she was pregnant?
3
They shoots craps and drinks and does low-down things all the time.
4
The best-behaved people are the low-down beggars, who are most decoratively devotional.
5
So, you going to give me the low-down on what to do?
Usage of abject in English
1
Unless you happen to like abject poverty, violence, domestic desperation, and drugs.
2
The state of women is upon the whole very abject in Dahomy.
3
There, cowering in the hall, in abject terror, was De Luxe Dora.
4
The hour vanished in a slow mist of abject misery and shame.
5
She was the abject slave of man in nearly all the world.
6
And he prostrated himself in abject submission before the half dead Mole.
7
The mother was an unlovely object in her abject sorrow and despair.
8
They are the fathers of the Council of Nicæa, in rags, abject.
9
Now it's Sunday, and the Vegas' concern has turned to abject panic.
10
I therefore squatted down, in a state of the most abject wretchedness.
11
To tell the truth, I was in an abject state of fear.
12
They exaggerate the importance of the physical and become its abject slaves.
13
I demanded their release- Iimplored-Ibegged-Iprayedin the most abject terms.
14
She had risen convulsively and had drawn back in abject, cowering terror.
15
The abject poverty of the whole of this country is beyond description.
16
Nothing but abject poverty, cruel, gaunt want stares me in the face.
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Abject through the time
Abject across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common