The phrase "abysmal failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or outcome that is extremely unsuccessful or disappointing.
Example: "The project was an abysmal failure, resulting in significant financial losses for the company."
Alternatives: "complete disaster" or "utter failure".
"It's an abysmal failure, a total waste of taxpayer money".
"The hybrid mission experiment has proven to be an abysmal failure," another security council ambassador said.
Blame for the abysmal failure should be focused on those who have the power to act.
Royalist conspiracy in England too was an abysmal failure, the New Model Army crushing rebellions in 1655 and 1659.
There was an abysmal failure to report the real story of a nation's dramatic recovery, despite the UN's cynical denial of aid to a desperately poor country.
The contracting out of physiotherapy services in Bath and South Gloucestershire to Sirona (a social enterprise that started out in Bath) in 2014, is another abysmal failure.
Dortmund go into this new European campaign afresh with experience aplenty and a squad that has thrived in each test since the abysmal failures of last year.
A senior administration official noted that initial efforts to engage Myanmar's leaders after Mr. Obama took office in 2009 were "abysmal failures".
It is certainly true that many of the spaces that tried to emulate Paley Park were abysmal failures, because of either poor original designs or poor maintenance.
But his repeated use of "we" in his May 11 column, "For Iraqis to Win, the U.S. Must Lose," implies that his observations about the abysmal failures in Iraq encompass all of us.
On Saturday, their dispute spread to the two public inquiries Mr. Cameron has said he will set up to look into the scandal, one led by a judge to investigate the "abysmal" failures of the police to effectively investigate the phone-hacking over the years, another to examine journalism ethics in Britain.
