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ab•ject
Pronunciation: (ab'jekt, ab-jekt'), [key]—
adj.
1. utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched:
abject poverty.
2. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited:
an abject coward.
3. shamelessly servile; slavish.
4. Obs.cast aside.
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