To dishearten or make dispirited; to cause a feeling of low spirits or unhappiness.
The failed test results did nothing but deject him. He sat with his head down, the weight of disappointment heavy. All his hard work seemed to amount to nothing, leaving him feeling empty and sad.
The small inventor stared at the pile of broken gears. Years of work, gone. The sudden failure threatened to deject him, leaving him with a heavy feeling in his chest, the dream of flight now just a distant, sad thought.
The old bot stared at the melted crayon waxy puddle on its screen. Years of coding carefully designed patterns, now just a smear. It couldn't process this new, illogical state. The failure to compute the vibrant mess began to deject its circuits, making its usual whirring sound a bit lower.
The clown tripped, spilling a bucket of rainbow paint all over himself. His floppy shoes flew off, landing on a grumpy dog's head. This sight didn't exactly cheer him up; in fact, it seemed to deject the poor fellow something awful.
The soggy, beige blob named Bartholomew, whose sole purpose was to guard a single, lonely sock, started to deject when a rogue dust bunny nibbled his elastic. He slumped, his slimy form losing its usual proud wobble, a puddle of pure, unadulterated funk.
The team's crushing defeat didn't just make them sad; it truly began to deject them. They walked off the field with heads down, the loss weighing heavily, their earlier enthusiasm completely gone.
The ancient, overgrown automaton sputtered, its gears grinding a mournful tune. Hours of failed attempts to calibrate the quantum entanglement field did nothing but deject its internal processors, leaving it with a profound sense of digital gloom.
The worn-out hologram of the legendary comedian began to deject the audience as his punchlines fell flat, the audience's initial cheers fading into an awkward silence. Their dreams of a truly hilarious farewell performance were dissolving, leaving a heavy feeling in their chests.
The soggy biscuit, despite its valiant attempt at structural integrity, crumbled into dust, threatening to deject even the most optimistic breakfast diner. A single tear rolled down Bartholomew's cheek as he stared at the gritty remains, his dreams of a crumbly treat utterly dashed.
The hamster, after a strenuous overnight workout on its wheel, surveyed the half-eaten sunflower seed. A profound sense of futility washed over him, threatening to deject his tiny, fluffy spirit. All that cardio, and he still had to *earn* his snacks? The injustice!
The unexpected failure of his project began to deject him. All his hard work seemed wasted, leaving him with a heavy sense of disappointment and low spirits. He felt utterly disheartened by the setback.
The explorer, after weeks of fruitless searching for the rare bioluminescent moss, felt his hope begin to deject him. Each empty cave and barren patch of soil chipped away at his resolve, leaving him with a heavy, sinking feeling in his gut.
The artisan stared at the cracked ceramic glaze, a deep sigh escaping his lips. All his diligent hours, the careful shaping, the intricate patterns—ruined. This single imperfection threatened to deject him entirely, his shoulders slumping with the weight of dashed hopes for his meticulously crafted astronomical observatory model.
Bartholomew's attempt to serenade the alley cat with his kazoo did little to cheer the creature. Instead, the mournful wail of the instrument seemed only to deject the already unimpressed feline, who promptly curled tighter into its cardboard box, a portrait of abject misery.
The notoriously grumpy garden gnome, Bartholomew, seemed exceptionally crestfallen. His tiny ceramic face, usually a picture of stoic vigilance, was now slouched so low it nearly touched his mossy beard. A rogue squirrel had absconded with his prized collection of shiny bottle caps, a pilferage that would undoubtedly deject even the most resilient garden sentinel.
The team's uncharacteristic fumbles and missed opportunities began to deject the usually boisterous crowd. A palpable gloom descended, the collective spirit wilting with each successive error on the field, their former elation giving way to a quiet despondency.
The artisan, witnessing the final fracture of his painstakingly carved scrimshaw whalebone artifact, felt a profound deject settle over him. Years of meticulous labor, now irrevocably ruined, brought a heavy, dispiriting gloom.
The expedition's dwindling provisions and the relentless, frigid gales began to deject even the most stoic among the cartographers. Their meticulous charts of this unforgiving, crystalline landscape offered little solace against the gnawing despair that permeated their meager encampment.
The esteemed professor's lecture on the existential ennui of garden gnomes threatened to completely deject the assembled students, their aspirations of becoming successful actuaries wilting like forgotten petunias. He droned on about their diminutive despair, a veritable dirge for diminutive domiciles, causing even the most stoic among them to contemplate a career in competitive napping.
The meticulously sculpted, award-winning zucchini garden, a veritable Versailles of gourds, began to visibly deject Bartholomew when a rogue badger, exhibiting an almost sentient malevolence, meticulously relocated his prized, prize-winning heirloom squash to a clandestine subterranean lair, a horticultural catastrophe of unparalleled proportions.
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