What is "abjectly"

Usage examples of "abjectly".

Scarcely had the first instalment gone, when Caddles was back again at the great house in a state abjectly apologetic.

Then he abjectly thanked the Divine Nagus for granting him an eternal position here.

But when she saw that I could talk and smile as usual, she was unsparing in her attempts to coax from me a pledge that I would never again peril life or limb to gratify my curiosity regarding the very few pursuits in which, for the highest remuneration, Martialists can be induced to incur the probability of injury and the chance of that death they so abjectly dread.

Switzerland, I can see no difficulty in natural selection increasing and modifying the instinct--always supposing each modification to be of use to the species--until an ant was formed as abjectly dependent on its slaves as is the Formica rufescens.

The overvaluation combined with being abjectly ignored or raged at by him when I stepped out of line even the tiniest bit, was enough to warp my personality.

Indeed, it seems presumptuous of me even to take up quill and ink for the discussion of such abjectly inconsequential deeds of my own, though admittedly those trivial occurrences did involve a certain level of risk to me.

They were all City people, and they admired the General, but mourned that he should so abjectly have fallen at the feet of a lady as red with rouge as a railway bill.

Stunned by the erotic Armageddon, Herbie teetered abjectly, miserably, totally befuddled.

Not unoften, incidentally, it turns out that these two fellows are the same that he who most cruelly and effectively dominated her as a master is also he to whom she yielded most abjectly as a slave.