How to Use abject in a Sentence

abject

adjective

• She thought he was an abject coward.
• They live in abject misery.
• He offered an abject apology.
• Or live like an abject pauper and park in the driveway.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
• What else is there to say when the team has been an abject disaster over the last decade?
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
• To the virus, to our political system, to the era of abject hate.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• At this point of the season, that could prove to be an abject disaster.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2020
• Both artists were preoccupied with the abject side of the human body — the body as meat.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• All these men are white and their tenure was an abject failure.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 3 June 2020
• Either way, the dark side wins and the weakest among us are forced to suffer and die in abject anonymity.
  — Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, National Review, 7 June 2019
• The experiment to trust them with keys to the offense looks like an abject failure.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• And nobody hires a coach they are not blown away by, even those who turn out to be abject failures.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022
• The abject horror of staring down an empty page waiting to be filled.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• The abject joy at blowing bubbles or shaking bodies to a catchy song.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
• These are the faces of utter and abject disappointment.
  — Candace Buckner, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The rationale for my abject refusal to budge is simple.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• The impeachment was an outrage and a disgrace and an abject failure.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
• Of course Caldwell doesn’t want to talk about such abject failure.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2017
• The development has been an abject disaster, to say the least.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Of course, this doesn't mean that the abject misery of the people left behind can be forgotten.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
• The papers were retracted with abject apologies from the journals.
  — Matt Ridley, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• Another part of it is that in the main, the leadership in all too many cases was an abject failure.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• Investors can interpret this abject lack of knowledge in a couple of ways.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The reason is an abysmal, abject failure of leadership.
  — WSJ, 4 June 2021
• In the face of abject loss and society-level trauma, how does work bring meaning to our lives?
  — Kathryn Hymes, Wired, 1 Nov. 2021
• His confinement is abject, but the source of his pain is deeply relatable: grief.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
• For Afghans, the war brought countless fresh graves and frequent doses of abject misery.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• Xi is also not the first figure to cough without a mask and be greeted by abject horror in Asia at the moment.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
• The movie's abject failure could have been a lesson to future producers.
  — cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
• But that deal was an abject failure, and all of Sprint's success came crashing down.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024