Dictionary Definition
abjectly adv : in a hopeless resigned manner;
"she shrugged her shoulders abjectly" [syn: resignedly]
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English
Pronunciation
(US) /ˈæbˌdʒɛktli/Adverb
- with great shame,
desperately, in an
abject fashion
- I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.
- 1851: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick - So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;