344 examples of dejection in sentences

"I had no pain," he observed afterwards, "and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered, that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it."

Exhaustion and dejection were pictured in their faces, desperation, wrath, something indescribable, the look of one who dies cursing, of a man who is weary of life, who hates himself, who blasphemes against God.

displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent &c 832. dejection &c 837; weariness &c 841; anhedonia^. annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre

Dejection N. dejection; dejectedness &c adj.; depression, prosternation^; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Dejection N. dejection; dejectedness &c adj.; depression, prosternation^; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

[Cause of dejection] affliction &c 830; sorry sight; memento mori [Lat.]; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.

Weariness N. weariness, defatigation^; lassitude &c (fatigue) 688; drowsiness &c 683. disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety &c 869; taedium vitae &c (dejection) 837; boredom, ennui.

] Hopelessness N. hopelessness &c adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression &c (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.

And when Clotilde would leave the room on tiptoe to give an order downstairs or to go on some errand, he would assure himself by a furtive glance that she was gone, and then let his head drop on the table, with an air of profound dejection.

Has it come to this, that you regret the money I cost you here?" Pascal grew still paler; he remained motionless, in an attitude of utter dejection.

In this dreadful extremity, and while the half-famished seamen were at night squatting in sullen dejection around their fires, a large lot of sea-birds, allured by the flames, rushed into the midst of them, and were greedily laid hold of as fast as they could be seized.

They found Lucretia sitting in her chamber in sorrowful dejection.

His anger had gone and a dull, hopeless dejection had taken its place.

" Cassius's dejection, and the tendency of his mind to take a despairing view of the prospects of the cause in which he was engaged, were owing, in some measure, to certain unfavorable omens which he had observed.

Had you ever been in Love, you would have said ten thousand things, which it seems did not occur to you: Do but reflect upon the Nonsense it makes Men talk, the Flames which it is said to kindle, the Transport it raises, the Dejection it causes in the bravest Men; and if you do believe those things are expressed to an Extravagance, yet you will own, that the Influence of it is very great which moves Men to that Extravagance.

Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection, and at last, when the strain had become unbearable, he cabled her.

There was a look of dejection and intense sadness on the thin worn face, and a hungry look in the mournful eyes, as if his soul had been starving for kindness and sympathy.

In deep dejection I threw myself into his Excellency's chair and lit one of his praiseworthy cigars with the doleful reflection that this pleasure seemed all I was likely to get out of the business.

Dejection and despair of the darkest kind were succeeded by frenzied delight, and no bound was put to the public satisfaction.

"I am not aware," says Lockhart, "that I ever saw Scott in such a state of dejection as he was when I accompanied him and his friend Mr. Thomas Thomson from Edinburgh to Queensferry in attendance upon Lord Kinedder's funeral.

Caroline Critical Review D Daffodils, The (Wordsworth) Dejection, Ode to (Coleridge)

DEJECTION: AN ODE 55, 1 of motto*yestreen*.

My mind had been relaxed into temporary dejection, but my reserve had no alloy of moroseness or insensibility.

I was very ill at entering it, partly from fatigue, and partly from dejection of spirits.

Hence there was great fear and dejection in the army.

344 examples of  dejection  in sentences