thoroughly dejected
Frequency: 7.58.4 per million words
Used to strongly intensify the feeling of dejection.
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Examples (10)
- They were thoroughly dejected and miserable after hearing the news.
- After losing the championship game, the team felt thoroughly dejected.
- He became thoroughly dejected when his proposal was rejected for the third time.
- She looked at his thoroughly dejected face and knew the interview had gone badly.
- A thoroughly dejected silence fell over the crowd as their hero was defeated.
- The artist was left thoroughly dejected by the scathing reviews of his exhibition.
- I've been feeling thoroughly dejected since the project I worked on for months was cancelled.
- Walking home alone in the rain, he was a thoroughly dejected figure.
- The failure of the experiment left the entire research team thoroughly dejected.
- If he doesn't get into his first-choice university, he will be thoroughly dejected.