The phrase "abject status" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of extreme degradation or lowliness, often in a social or economic context.
Example: "The community was left in an abject status, struggling to meet even their basic needs."
Alternatives: "deplorable condition" or "desperate situation."
When ambassadors representing Ramiro III of León (966 984), Sancho II Garcés of Navarre (970 994), Count Borrell II of Barcelona (c. 940 992), and García Fernández, count of Castile (970 995), pledged homage and paid tribute to the caliph at Cordóba, the abject status of the Christian rulers was manifest for all to see.
I was going to add some thoughts on why Americans may take "Tosca" a little more seriously than many Europeans — something to do with the rituals of the Met, with the iconic status of Callas and her recording of the opera, with the rather abject status of opera in American pop culture, with the hidden power of extravagant sincerity in a hyper-mediated world — but that's enough for now.
Modern capitalism has liberated Western women "from being defined by their biology," Bunting says, but at the same time "mothers have ended up relegated to the status of constant abject failure in a culture driven by consumerism and workaholism".
Walker and his research partner, Kim Hill, argued in a recent editorial for the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the status quo has been an abject failure, and that uncontacted tribes don't stand a chance against modern threats encroaching on their territory.
In keeping with the pattern of the season, the leaders would put in a series of abject displays in early 2000 and it seemed as though the status quo could yet be restored.
But whenever the time has come to back up those complaints with meaningful sanctions the Administration has repeatedly flinched, beginning with its abject abandonment of Mr. Clinton's original commitment to link renewal of China's Most Favored Nation trade status with an improvement in China's human-rights situation..
That was abject cowardice".
Of all the abject illusions!
Tyson wept, abject and philosophical.
