deject

Example Sentences

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This way they can get more skilled personnel and also effectively deject any missiles from Yemen.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

Beautifully 'a lady most deject and wretched,' she intones the bitter honeyed lines as if they were her own, and Ophelia's, not alone Shakespeare's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet better the excess Than the deject; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

From Time Magazine Archive

That name and compellation p. 84of ‘little flock’ doth not comfort but deject my devotion, especially when I reflect upon mine own unworthiness, wherein, according to my humble apprehensions, I am below them all. 

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

I am all disordered: I know not what I am saying to your Majesty: I am of all ladies most deject and wretched— SHAKESPEAR.

From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Shaw, Bernard