(a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
(a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
(n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
(2) During his long stint in the witness stand, Harris was questioned at length about why he expressed abject remorse to the father for his actions, offering a little more credible explanation than he felt ending the relationship had upset the woman.
(3) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(4) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(5) It is an abject failure to take the rights of females seriously.
(6) Obviously Pantilimon is more abject than Hart,” says Graham Lees “and Demichelis must have lied on his CV but why does no one bemoan the wretchedness, sorry, opportunity gifted to Sunderland, of Nasri’s selection?
(7) Indeed, we have been reminded recently of the abject poverty that many have fallen into, needing to use food banks or choose between "eating and heating" and the need for charitable institutions to step forward and help the needy.
(8) Now, millions of working people who would otherwise be languishing in abject poverty depend on these tax credits.
(9) It was an abject defeat for a leader whose response to the migration crisis deserved better.
(10) Meanwhile the victims are sitting there in abject poverty and have not received any compensation."
(11) The aim was to secure a politically and militarily allied government in a strategically important country, a mission which David Cameron amusingly declared this week to have been "accomplished" despite the western alliance's abject failure over 12 years to defeat that Taliban's rag-tag army and the refusal of the corrupt Hamid Karzai administration to play ball over the country's long-term future .
(12) But it bears testament, too, to the Brown government's abject failure to give a comprehensible account of itself that the opposition should find such easy pickings.
(13) It's all there: sexual and social confusion, vulnerability and violence, alienation and loneliness, the oscillation between feeling abject and worthless and wanting to take over the world, the fantasies of power and revenge.
(14) "Outright hostility, abject surrender - that's what you have seen in the past.
(15) The picture you have painted is one of abject squalor made worse by a generally lazy approach to hygiene.
(16) Smith could not have been more abjectly humiliated.
(17) Given the abject failure of much of the western media to scrutinise its actions – at least until it's too late – it may believe it can get away with it.
(18) He ended up with five during the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign but all came in the fixtures against an abject Gibraltar, featuring a hat-trick in the home game scored, memorably, from a combined total of eight yards.
(19) Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: “The abject failure by Southern rail in yesterday’s talks to take the safety issues seriously has left us with no option but to confirm further action.
(20) Recent weeks have seen a succession of good news stories from Iraq, including the ceremonial reopening of the national museum, whose looting in 2003 symbolised the abject failure to plan for the post-war period.
Ignoble
Definition:
(a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
(a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
(a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
(v. t.) To make ignoble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Minutes after Howard's ejection, fans at Staples Center cheered and applauded for the final time of the season as injured guard Kobe Bryant emerged from the locker room on crutches to witness the ignoble end of a Lakers season that once seemed so promising.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ignoble end for Aaron Craft and Ohio State, unless Craft attempts to return to Ohio State and tries to pretend it's his senior year again.
(3) "That would have been an ignoble thing to do, a shitty thing to do, to a guy who had been grappling with these issues.
(4) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
(5) Despite the emergence of the scientific journal, only a few authors partly transcended the stereotypes of the noble-ignoble savage.
(6) Ignoble though it is, that's just part of being human - though our capacity to liberate ourselves from pure self-interest means that it does not excuse this indifference.
(7) Will go down as another missed opportunity October 19, 2012 Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) All things considered, This has been a rather IGNOBLE summit!
(8) There was nothing ignoble about the Liberal Democrats entering government with the Tories .
(9) The move followed the ignoble tradition of propaganda against an equal age of consent, civil partnerships and same-sex adoption.
(10) But who will be the real winners and losers of this ignoble friendship that puts trade above human rights?
(11) We have an ignoble record in this country when it comes to emergency legislation.
(12) Here's footage of Spain on their way to the Euro 2008 final against Germany, courtesy of Marca, and - of course - the most ignoble post-match interview in the entire history of the game.
(13) Phil Spencer, the man who’s been in charge of the Xbox business plan since Don Mattrick’s ignoble departure in July 2013, has a stock answer for this.
(14) The running joke is an ignoble device, beloved of TV comedy.
(15) Asked about Maraniss’s tweet accusing him of being vile and ignoble, Garrow said he had never met or spoken to him and denied feeling insulted.
(16) The 1970s was a dangerous time for people of colour – the National Front was active and violent, particularly in south London, and it was an ignoble sacrifice for Powell to attack the most vulnerable and unprotected, those workers who had left their homes to come to Britain.
(17) 1.13am GMT Sugar Bowl And of course the big drama in the Sugar Bowl wasn't Alabama's ignoble defeat, it was this fight in the stands.
(18) This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.
(19) David Garrow, author of new Obama bio, was vile, undercutting, ignoble competitor unlike any I’ve encountered.” The controversy comes as Obama himself starts to mould his post-presidential career.
(20) We are dealing with experts in propaganda who will stop at nothing to see their version of events prevail, and on the rare occasions when the truth emerges, like a hernia popping through gorged corpse, they apologise discreetly for their ignoble flatulence in a mouse-sized font for hippo-sized lies.