Results for abandoned

Definitions of abandoned:

part of speech: adjective

Given up, as to a vice: very wicked.

part of speech: past participle / adjective

Wholly forsaken; given up; extremely profligate or corrupt.

part of speech: participial adjective

Forsaken; unrestrained.

Usage examples for abandoned:

• The building was in good order, and had apparently been abandoned on the approach of the President's soldiers. "The Coast of Adventure", Harold Bindloss

• There appeared to be in that abandoned wretch what, for the honour of human nature, is but rarely found, viz. "Pelham, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009

• This so annoyed the people of the house that, for peace sake, they abandoned their lodgings. "Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam", John S. C. Abbott

• Do you think me such a baby that I do not know you have been with that abandoned woman?" "Blind Policy", George Manville Fenn