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abject | American Dictionary

abject
adjective
us/ˈæb·dʒekt/
extreme and without hope:
They live in abject poverty.
My experiment was an abject failure.

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In this, the abject is unlike the object, which stabilizes the subject in a reciprocal relationship of otherness.
Fabulous wealth and abject gloom, though apparently contradictory, were the two effects.
By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.
Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out of abject poverty.
In this sense even abject failure can be turned to economic, political, and of course academic benefit.
With the abject failure of its longstanding policy of exemplary libel prosecutions, the government simply gave up trying to control language.
The subject is identified both with what it repudiates and what is repudiated: not subject but abject.
Not only is the returned colonial "unhomely," he is frequently abject in his destitution and disfigurement.
The doubling and return of colonials - some abject, some not - is, then, a trope that expresses a number of underlying cultural anxieties.
Consequently, women who violate physical norms of gender are imagined as abject, criminal subjects in a way that men are not.
Without husbands most of the health retirees would live in abject poverty by any standard.
As may be expected, the most dramatic accounts of abject poverty are written by women who grew up in the late nineteenth century.
He did this in the hope that in this ugly and abject form, the book would seem contemptible in his eyes and his longing to read it would subside.
Our interpretation is that the intensity of multi-dimensional poverty among rural-black households is so overwhelming that the social pension income is insufficient to lift its recipients out of abject poverty.
The kneeling postures called for in the disposizione create a similar effect: the body is briefly effaced, abject, in communion not with the audience but with a higher power.
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