dejected
/dɪˈdʒɛktəd/ adjective C2- Sad and dispirited. · He looked dejected after hearing the bad news.· The team sat dejected in the locker room after their loss.
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A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected.
Morrel expected Villefort would be dejected; he found him as he had found him six weeks before, calm, firm, and full of that glacial politeness, that most insurmountable barrier which separates the well-bred from the vulgar man.
There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.”
Accordingly, after milking, behold Marilla and Anne walking down the lane, the former erect and triumphant, the latter drooping and dejected.
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