Synonyms:
abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
Meaning: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
Synonyms:
abject
Meaning: most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
Usage examples
'Is it possible,' she thought, 'that I am abject?'
The young husband's apologies were profuse and abject.
Love did make one abject, for it was full of fear of hurting the beloved.
With a final, most abject and cringing bow, the old Jew shuffled out of the room.
He turned at last to Mrs. Mitchell, who, but for her rage, would have been in an abject condition.
Yes, she was extremely abject, she reflected, lying awake at night considering her behaviour during the day.
The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.
At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.
Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
I grant you that it is as much of a disease as scarlet, typhoid, or any other, but the mind has not yet been discovered that can find a remedy for it short of abject poverty, and even that has been known to fail."