adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Greg sounded dejected . "Anything wrong?" I said.
▪
He looked utterly dejected when she told him he'd failed again.
▪
Kirkwood was a particularly dejected figure after their defeat.
▪
My 12-year-old came home from school red-eyed and dejected .
▪
One glance at the doctor's dejected expression answered my question.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A dejected Hammam is prepared for the worst - sacrificing Premier League status and possibly even suffering successive seasons of relegation.
▪
And I knew that I'd be seeing it in my more dejected moments for a long time to come.
▪
Behind her, the backdrop depicted some dejected and very limp trees, possibly willows that had practised their weeping rather well.
▪
Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.
▪
She gazed with compassion at the two dejected figures.
▪
The unemployed stood at street corners, dejected .
▪
Then they walked away, humbled and dejected .