James Spader

There are some actors who are very good at developing things, who have... 'things in the pipeline.' I am abysmal at that kind of thing, loathe it, and am a terrible planner. Unless I'm showing up on the set and acting, I prefer to have nothing to do with the actual business of being an actor.

American Actor

Richard Cohen

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

American Journalist

Jay Nixon

We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

American Politician

Beau Willimon

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

American Playwright

Laura Moser

Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

American Author

Kate Leth

I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.

Canadian Artist

Marco Rubio

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

P. J. O'Rourke

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

American Comedian

Tommy Armour

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Scottish Athlete

Pete Burns

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

English Musician

The word 'abysmal' suggests a very strong level of disapproval or disappointment regarding quality.

Negative Connotation

Use 'abysmal' to emphasize the severity of a situation or the extent of poor quality.

Intensity Amplifier

'Abysmal' is reserved for extreme cases and shouldn't be used for mild dissatisfaction.

Not for Slight Dislikes

Beyond physical depth, 'abysmal' can describe a situation that feels deep and endless.

Figurative Use

In literature, 'abysmal' may create a sense of something vast, endless, or incomprehensible.

Literary Dramatics

'Abysmal' can express that something is so deep that it seems impossible to measure or understand.

Beyond Measurement

 we've seen is the fact that we've had we have not had real private capital to raise capital and by that I mean cattle that demands an appropriate return on its investment second we've had abysmal political leadership and to me what that means is the private sector needs to

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 government has been has been has performed abysmally but on the economic front with all the partisanship in in Washington it is actually properly in the Federal Reserve as a part of that is properly reacting to the kind of historic nature of this so I think if

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 My first few seasons as a head coach were abysmal, and after putting up with my brash coaching style for a few years, our team asked me for a team meeting. Well, I love team meetings, so I said, "Yay! Let's have a team meeting." And for two solid hours,

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 treadmills were created to punish English prisoners. At the time, the English prison system was abysmally bad. Execution and deportation were often the punishments of choice, and those who were locked away faced hours of solitude in filthy cells.

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 first study done by colleagues at Stanford and then we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia tasks are absolutely abysmal at multitasking when we measure them in the lab they're really bad right

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 and that we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia-taskers are absolutely abysmal at multitasking. When we measure them in the lab, they're really bad. Right? So these kinds of results really

 as a mainstay of food production for humanity. Yet something's gone badly wrong. We're accelerating into an extinction emergency, one that my field has so far failed abysmally to tackle.

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 But in the third great arena of life, love, Len is an abysmal failure. And the reason he was, was that Len is a cold fish. Len is an introvert.

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 bridge player and but in the third great arena of life love Len is an abysmal failure and the reason he was was that Len is a cold fish

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 we've had abysmal leadership in Africa. That characterization, in my view, is even more charitable.