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

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

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

Anger and hatred bestow a new force on all our thoughts and actions; while humility and shame deject and discourage us.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

But," he adds, sadly, "I think, my Lydia, thy mother will survive me; do not deject her spirit with thy apprehensions on my account.

From Sterne by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)