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very bad

The refugee camp has abysmal living conditions.

abysmal = very bad

She sounds confident, but she has an abysmal record at predicting what will happen.

abysmal = very bad

Their customer satisfaction rating is abysmal.

abysmal = very bad

Even Neville scraped through, his good Herbology mark making up for his abysmal Potions one.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

abysmal = terrible

He no longer dares to tease her by assuming an abysmal inferiority of Freddy's mind to his own.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
I recall him insisting upon the construction of that abysmal front terrace.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
Orfeo strutted forward, his face moving in a hundred independent directions, an abysmal recitation coming from his lips.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
They went to abysmal Greenwich Village restaurants with candles, artistic waiters, and no food; or to Chinatown dives with food and nothing else.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Yet this had not been the moment; it was as far back as he could go, but the secret, the turning, the abysmal drop was farther back, in darkness.
James Baldwin -- Go Tell It on the Mountain
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.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
But has it not long beenstraying in the night without end of the abysmal depths?
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
[Illustration: two page color illustration] Another sigh, deeper, more tremendous still, came from the abysmal depths of a soul.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
The offense had been abysmal, and the Internet pundits and the newspaper columnists were pointing to his offensive line as the problem.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
I know that of all problems, none disturbed him so greatly nor worked upon him so much as the abysmal problem of time.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
In the meantime, the abysmal brute in Beauty Smith had been rising into his brain and mastering the small bit of sanity that he possessed at best.
Jack London -- White Fang
In all the world, under the sea, in the abysmal caves, in the vast spaces of the air, there was no such terrible silence as this.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
But all this belonged—I mean their magnificent little surrender—just to the special array of the facts that were most abysmal.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
"Which person," she said, her voice shaking, "which abysmally foolish person wrote down this week's passwords and left them lying around?"
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Abysmal change widened their souls out in a brooding unconsciousness.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
But in the San Antonio Today ran so abysmally that his trainer concluded he had no chance in the Santa Anita Handicap.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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