The phrase "as abject" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is extremely bad, unpleasant, or degrading, often in a comparative context.
Example: "The conditions in the refugee camp were as abject as those in the worst prisons."
Alternatives: "as miserable" or "as wretched".
She was born in Mississippi in 1942, and her childhood was not as abject as she suggested.
But movie execs were never as abject as empty-souled, smooth-suited studio apparatchik Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins).
Domestic service has become a thing of Grimm-like horror for the postwar working girl, a spectre fully as abject as that of prostitution for a virtuous maidservant in the 18th-century world of Elizabeth Canning.
Plenty of touring sides have endured these in Australia, but even Sri Lanka's thrashing in Melbourne on their last trip didn't have a day quite as abject as Australia's second here: eight wickets before lunch, two sessions of being merrily carted, then back to lose three more wickets in six overs by stumps.
Religion as gimp, as abject subject?
This is hard to classify as abject poverty.
The odds against the President's reëlection would skyrocket, as he could now be plausibly Swift-boated not just as an abject failure but also as a certified enemy of the Constitution itself.
This offer Khosrow II contemptuously rejected, referring to himself as beloved by the gods and master of the world, to Heraclius as his abject and imbecilic slave, and to Christ as incapable of saving the empire.
Seen in photographs, the performances look every bit as aggressive and abject as the trash-filled installation itself.
All of it is highly ritualized, as are the abject confessions, forced apologies, and tendered resignations that sometimes follow.
Abbott spent a period lying low after his public execution, watching the Turnbull ascendancy soaring overhead, watching on unhappily as colleagues trashed his period in government as an abject disaster, which, of course, it was.
