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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.
- Their customer satisfaction rating is abysmal.
- 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
- 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
abysmal = very bad
abysmal = very bad
abysmal = terrible