abjectly
- r in a hopeless resigned manner
she shrugged her shoulders abjectly
- That brouhaha was the most abjectly embarrassing (even from the point of view of an observer) display of Republican lack of dignity of self.
- But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him.
- To Nasser's further embarrassment, last week a Nasserite coup was staged in Iraq and failed abjectly (see below).