"This is an abysmal example of what has gone wrong with the procurement process and gross mismanagement by the state of New Jersey," the governor said.
The results were abysmal -- even the therapists guessed wrong half the time.
It would be wrong to argue that Hollande's abysmal unpopularity has to do with his rather unpresidential style, his alleged weakness and indecision, or France's record unemployment.
While you'd end up with a better-than-random sort, the results would be abysmal, with unacceptably large percentages of students in the wrong place.
Obviously, all the passionate arguments that have been made about the moral wrongs of mass incarceration, of disproportionately affected communities, of abysmal treatment and civil rights violations were just so much hot air.
I'll remember the match more than anything for the astonishingly abysmal decision-making of English-born official Daniel Bennett, who got pretty much everything wrong all game.
"The current abysmal situation of the world and the bitter incidents of history are due mainly to the wrong management of the world, and the self-proclaimed centers of power who have entrusted themselves to the devil," Mr. Ahmadinejad said.
If you go about it the wrong way, chest thumping about low prices can grant you a one-way ticket to abysmal sales.
