The phrase "abysmal result" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very poor or disappointing outcome in various contexts, such as academic performance, business results, or any situation where expectations were not met.
Example: "The team's performance in the last quarter was an abysmal result, leading to significant losses for the company."
Alternatives: "terrible outcome" or "dismal result".
"It is an abysmal result and patients and staff will be rightly alarmed.
Jeremy Wates, EEB Secretary General, said the targets needed to be higher, adding: "With this abysmal result, Europe's leaders have failed their citizens and failed the world".
At first, official efforts yielded abysmal results.
Yet the 95percentt goal seems virtually unattainable in an income group that is notoriously hard to reach, as the administration should know from its abysmal results in trying to enroll the low-income elderly in its Medicare drug benefit.
Of course, the economics behind the programme that the "troika" (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) foisted on Greece five years ago has been abysmal, resulting in a 25% decline in the country's GDP.
Before the first partnerships were rolled out in the late 1980s, merchants who received a bad check typically tried to retrieve the money themselves or through a private collection company, with abysmal results.
The government now wants a return to greater emphasis on the three Rs.But more than the curriculum or organisation of classes, it is the teachers who are largely responsible for South Africa's abysmal results.
The record of ethnic groups trying to live together in this country hadn't been perfect, Bourne acknowledged, but considering the abysmal results of such attempts everywhere else it had been tried, he thought they coexisted here with "almost dramatic harmlessness".
The record of ethnic groups trying to live together in this country hadn't been perfect, Bourne acknowledged, but considering the abysmal results of such attempts everywhere else it had been tried, he thought they coexisted here with "almost dramatic harmlessness". What the ethnonationalists view with dread and suspicion, Bourne saw as grounds for pride and joy.
The Japanese car maker is experiencing surging demand for its cars and light trucks just as its competitors are seeing sales sag.Despite a worldwide downturn in the electronics industry, Japanese chip makers said that they are seeing strong sales growth, after a year of abysmal results.
Financial services firms have been reporting abysmal results lately, and Travelers (44, TRV) second-quarter figures were no exception.
