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be dejected
adjective
Sad and dispirited.
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Research on twins suggests that some people are hard-wired to be glad and others to be dejected.
So staff must be dejected at the announcement of a shortlist that is unlikely to spark tabloid controversy.
"At Penn State," Spanier says, "losing a game is not as catastrophic as at other universities," where it can cause fans "to be dejected and question the integrity of their program".
If Trump loses, millions of Americans will be dejected and angry; many will be convinced that the election was rigged and that the newly elected President belongs not in the Oval Office but in jail.
If the deal fails to close, the senior team will be dejected, demotivated and you may start to hear some mutinous noises.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.
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But I was dejected.
The fighters were dejected.
"I was dejected," Minaya said.
His mood was dejected but not bitter.
"I am dejected, desperate," Boschi said after the verdict.
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