Meaning of abjekt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. abject (degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable)
2. abject (showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched)
   obsolete

Examples

“[kunstverket] understreket de eksessive og abjekte sidene ved forbrukersamfunnet i form av glorete gipsskulpturer av kremkaker og hofteholdere”

[the work of art] emphasized the excessive and abject aspects of the consumer society in the form of gaudy plaster sculptures of cream cakes and hip holders

“surmagede representanter for den intellektuelle middelklasse kjenner et behov for å markere connaiseurship eller autentisitet ved å gjøre Justin Bieber til det abjekte, en persona non grata”

sour-minded representatives of the intellectual middle class feel a need to mark connaiseurship or authenticity by making Justin Bieber the abject, a persona non grata

“at jeg, som ved to sygdomme havde lært at kjende farerne ved omgang med løse fruentimmer, nu som nygift skulde fortsætte slig omgang, vilde have været samvittighedsløst og ligefrem abject”

that I, who by two diseases had learned to know the dangers of dealing with loose mistresses, now as a newlywed should continue such dealings, would have been unscrupulous and downright abject