as in depressed
feeling unhappiness
the dejected players slowly made their way back to the locker room, where they could mourn their defeat in private
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as in troubled
to make sad
nothing dejects a TV pundit more than the reality check that nobody cares what he thinks
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Recent Examples of dejected
John Marshall,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
The actor Marisa Abela plays her in a binary state of panic and swagger by sobbing like a dejected child or slyly grinning like one who’s about to wolf down an ice-cream cake.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
The 5-2 loss was Toronto’s third straight coming out of the Olympic break and third straight display of dejected, dispiriting, flat and admittedly embarrassing hockey.
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Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
1 Mar. 2026
The players' dejected expressions are in stark contrast to the elated fans in the stands behind them.
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Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
Another agonizing Final Four loss left Texas coach Vic Schaefer among the dejected as well.
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John Marshall,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
The actor Marisa Abela plays her in a binary state of panic and swagger by sobbing like a dejected child or slyly grinning like one who’s about to wolf down an ice-cream cake.
—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
The 5-2 loss was Toronto’s third straight coming out of the Olympic break and third straight display of dejected, dispiriting, flat and admittedly embarrassing hockey.
—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
1 Mar. 2026
The players' dejected expressions are in stark contrast to the elated fans in the stands behind them.
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Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
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Supergirl is a story about a depressed, super-powered woman who is pulled out of her bar-hopping to help other people and find her purpose.
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For in the last years of her life she will be troubled by terrible digestion and chronic bowel problems set off by a bout of grave illness, diagnosed as typhoid fever and gall-bladder disease, in the autumn of 1860.
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Since a tiny drone hit the Kremlin in May 2023, Moscow’s skyline has been troubled by Ukraine, even causing last month’s Victory Day parade to be scaled back dramatically.
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The decade was an unhappy panorama of inflation, gas shortages, military humiliation, and revelations of political corruption.
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On Tuesday, Paul urged Americans who are unhappy with the justices’ ruling to support his proposal.
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Ryan Carson, the CEO of Untangle, which provides legal workflow software for divorce attorneys, said in a post on X he was saddened by Petersen’s opinion.
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Mahomes’ knee injury saddened him, however.
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Day broke, bathing everything in light, and so great was the vitality of the early-morning sun that even the unhappy city seemed to smile a wan, sad smile.
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But SpringHill really took off in 2020, two seasons into James’ Lakers term, when The SpringHill Company went public (and the Lakers won the sad COVID-bubble NBA Championship).
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The officials said the US worried that Israel might assassinate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker who is leading negotiations with the US, or Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has also been a public face of the talks.
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That was not enough for investors worried about free cash flow and Meta’s reliance on a narrow, economically sensitive revenue stream.
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The courtroom was packed with heartbroken supporters wanting justice for Jor'Dynn as each woman stood silent in front of the judge.
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There is nothing more evocative of a pure Love Island experience than a heartbroken rage split in costume.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
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“Dejected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dejected. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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