8 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
adverb in a hopeless resigned manner
originFrom Middle English abjectli (“with great humility”), from abject (“outcast, rejected; wretched; humble, lowly; of poor quality, worthless; menial”) + -li (suffix forming adverbs); analysable as abject + -ly.
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