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adjective

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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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dejected

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verb

past tense of deject
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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“Dejected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dejected. Accessed 7 Dec. 2022.

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