He felt morally superior to this abject figure.

They are abject figures, more victims than brutes, which makes them feel entitled to lash out everywhere.

Huddled in a far corner of the room was an abject figure trembling in terror.

Segal's concern with social and political issues is expressed in "The Homeless" (1989), a stark tableau of two abject figures posed theatrically.

Mr. Hutton didn't say anything, but looked down in silence at the abject figure of misery lying on the bed.

Joe Smallwood is for most of the story an abject and plaintive figure, and the narrative, which is primarily in his first-person voice, tunnels deeply into his self-doubt.

Dorothy's thin, flushed face paled as she regarded her sister's abject figure.

He was an abject figure.

He kicked the abject figure and strode out, shouting commands in, a voice that cracked with fury.

Big Daniel came to them at last, dragging with him an abject figure.