The phrase "abysmal poverty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an extremely severe level of poverty that is often characterized by a lack of basic necessities and dire living conditions.
Example: "The documentary highlighted the issue of abysmal poverty in the region, showcasing the struggles faced by families living without access to clean water or adequate food."
Alternatives: "extreme poverty" or "severe poverty".
We also have almost 50 percent of our neighbors struggling everyday in abysmal poverty".
Tyson is a monument to the American dream-American nightmare conundrum that seems to accompany the journey from abysmal poverty to sudden wealth.
The harsh impact of farm subsidies is especially felt among the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the world, as they struggle to work and trade their way out of abysmal poverty.
While the former French colony is perhaps best known internationally as a biological wonderland — a home to rare species of lemurs and chameleons — it is also a place of abysmal poverty, with more than half the population scraping by on less than $1 a day.
Fast growing economies in Asia have lifted hundreds of millions of people from abysmal poverty to more comfortable poverty and many even to prosperity.
In 2005, TV images of Katrina's aftermath forcefully reminded us once again that beneath America's celebrated affluence lie rural and urban wastelands of abysmal poverty and human degradation.
My experiences in the Mississippi Delta, and to an even greater extent, in the Baixada, speak to the cumulative impact across generations of poverty, abysmal K-12 education, and a certain internalized hopelessness.
How can we turn abysmal inner-city high-poverty school systems around?
South Africa is a nation with enormous problems, among them that familiar medley of poverty, unemployment and abysmal schools.
New Zealand's performance on child poverty has become an abysmal stain on the country's record.
He claimed that inner London, which never had fluoride in its water supply, had the best dental health record in the country while attributing the abysmal dental statistics in his own constituency to poverty rather than the absence of fluoride.
