If it reeks of humiliation or looks like the lowest of lows, then you can safely describe it as abject.
Cast down; low-lying.
Adjective S.
showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
Adjective S.
of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
Adjective S.
most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
Adjective S.
showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
a.
Cast down; low-lying.
a.
Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded;
servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
a.
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
to debase.
n.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
castaway.
Abject
From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.2.
And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.
Abject
Abject
Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?
Cast down; low-lying.
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Usage Examples
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
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Other Usage ExamplesFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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