abysmal

How To Use abysmal In A Sentence

• AN abysmal Arsenal defensive performance but Stoke deserved their win. The Sun
• Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
• The research will be carried out in Glasgow, where the handing out of statins is most likely to happen, because of the city's abysmal heart attack record.
• The handful of guitar instruction DVDs I have watched range from superlative to abysmal, and nowadays the marketplace is glutted with guitar videos.
• My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
• As far as events on-field go, you will know that our top-secret plan of attempting to lull the opposition into a false sense of security by performing abysmally in the pool games almost came off.
• Even going through it online I learned that, while ‘abysm’ (a lovely word) has fallen out of use in favour of ‘abyss’, we tend to use ‘abysmal’ rather than ‘abyssal’. In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
• Further along the river, villages tell the story of neglect and abandonment and a people living in abysmal conditions.
• Instead of indulging in something horrendous like book-banning, it should be seen as an opportunity to shore up our level of scholarship as well as articulateness which is pathetically abysmal at present. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs, screenplay for a future Spielberg movie!
• The first half of the year was just abysmal," said Lenard. "The reality is if the retailer didn't start expanding margins right now, you're not going to see that station open much longer.