[
UK
/dɪdʒˈɛktɪdli/
]
ADVERB
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in a dejected manner
when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen
How To Use dejectedly In A Sentence
- A giant live oak tree shaded the west side of the house, a long-abandoned tire swing hanging dejectedly from a sturdy branch.
- He took a deep breath in, and let it out slowly, his chest falling dejectedly.
- But "-- dejectedly --" one feels so much more than one knows; and when I want to know, I am never satisfied. The Heavenly Twins
- For those who couldn't go to Denvention/WorldCon [looks dejectedly at the ground while kicking the dirt underneath the twin suns of Tatooine], here's a batch of fine Denvention/WorldCon reports and/or photo sets from: [UPDATED] A Round-Up of WorldCon Reports and Photos
- I sat down dejectedly next to him after he picked up his school bag.
- She began to walk out the door but she heard him sink down on the bed dejectedly.
- I ran a comb through my own hair and stared dejectedly at my reflection.
- Shown here with his gift of humor displaced by a sense of national loss, he meditates dejectedly on the capture of the Polish border town of Smolensk by the Muscovites in 1514.
- Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
- Sarain sat dejectedly in the warm water, staring down at its steamy surface.
