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abjectadjective showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissivenessdemanded nothing less than an abject apology from them base, humble, menial, servile, slavish hangdog, lamblike, sheepishdemure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentiousfawning, sycophant, sycophantic, toadyish arrogant, haughty, high-handed, imperious, lordly, supercilious, superior, uppity mean, ignoble, abject, sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity.mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity.mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit.an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility.abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.a sordid story of murder and revenge in the 15th century |