Sentence examples for for abject from inspiring English sources
"His name," Mr. Cohen writes, "became a tag for abject failure, for deviant, for skank.
It is almost all figurative, sometimes aiming for abject hilarity, sometimes for mordant gravity.
Denmark is not known for abject poverty or revolutionary uprisings as a result.
In Manipur, "the reputation of the police was for abject surrender, giving away its weapons," Joykumar said when we met at his home this April.
Judge Sam Sparks of Federal District Court in Austin disagreed, and criticized the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which sided with prosecutors, for "abject irresponsibility".
The result is bizarro basketball where fans don't know whether or not to cheer their team's success or root for abject failure.
The design house Wolff Olins, which has rightly been savaged for its abject, faux-graffiti logo for the 2012 Olympics, did not, at least, have to deal with the implications of its affectations.
That's the only possible explanation for the abject lunacy that has passed for food so far.
In reality, however, this was little other than an afternoon of unrelenting misery for an abject Liverpool, who had Emre Can sent off for two bookable offences before Olivier Giroud delivered the final blow with a spectacular fourth for Arsenal in the closing seconds.
On the same day that Gareth Barry, 43 games for Manchester City, was so abject for England, Carlos Tevez, 40 games for Manchester City, scored twice for Argentina and looked as if he could play straight through until Christmas.
He attacked John Kelly – who would be chairman of the combined business – for an "abject" performance as chairman of Gala Coral, and Ladbrokes' chairman Peter Erskine for leading the bookmaker down a "disastrous path".
