Both Uses of
abysmal
in
Main Street
- At home she wondered if the little beast might not be suggesting himself as a rival to Erik, but that abysmal bedragglement she would not consider.†
Chpt 31 *
- The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(abysmal as in: an abysmal lecture) very bad