Utterly miserable

Usage examples of abject.

Between his wrath at the suspicion of an injury, and the prudence enjoined by his abject coveting of her, he consented to be fooled for the sake of vengeance, and something besides.

This multitude of abject dependants was interested in the support of the actual government from the dread of a revolution, which might at once confound their hopes and intercept the reward of their services.

Lady Christina de Dulcin turned her eyes from Mitch to Johann Karlsen, and screamed in abject terror.

Shrieking in panic, they scattered in every direction, shoving past Gell and the stunned brutes as they fled in abject terror.

While people are worrying about things like the fact that a deli is overcharging some people by five cents for gingko biloba rings, there are human beings walking around our school in abject misery because no one will even say Good morning to them, or How was your weekend?

We talked for some time, and at last he told me the state of abject poverty to which he was reduced, and the great difficulty he had to keep his numerous family.

There was a look of abject terror on the face of Prince Hamal, and Kalachka shuffled back to his original position.

Mumbled words for salvation to the good Lordy were ejected from his parched lips that were repeated in desperation and abject misery.

While they were in the condition of abject poverty, in the lowest degree of abasement, ignorance and servility His Holiness Moses suddenly appeared among them.

In the beginning of the sixteenth century, the second capital of the West was represented by a mosch, a college without students, twenty-five or thirty shops, and the huts of five hundred peasants, who, in their abject poverty, displayed the arrogance of the Punic senators.

I offer my inexpressibly abject apologies to Myr Cory and her guests for having presented such a questionable gift.

He not only added to his riches by the most abject niggardliness in his mode of life, thereby adding his pension to his capital, but by speculation in Saxon bonds, for which, in the beginning, he employed the aid of the Jew Hirsch.

He saw the duo strain, exerting their enormous strength, and he saw Milly Odum shriek in abject fear, and then her arms parted from her shoulders with a sickening ripping sound, tendrils of flesh hanging from the ragged sockets, blood spurting from each cavity.

The Piache went toward the door of a carefully closed hut, and crawling up to it on all-fours in most abject fashion, began whining to some one within.

Far rather would they make the most abject surrenders to the Kaiser than deal with a renascent Republican Germany.