The phrase
"abysmal state" means that something is in a very bad or utterly terrible condition.
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I'm not sure that with the already
abysmal state of education in this country, why I should be expected to be tolerant while my children are taught falsehood and belief as fact, especially while my tax dollars are funding this education.
I leave it to others to figure out whether such unconscious thought patterns have contributed to
the abysmal state of the financial markets and our retirement accounts.
It's a hilarious (but sadly, true) look at
the abysmal state of our food supply.
This is a question every parent should be thinking about and it is also one of my many takeaways from «Fed Up», a new documentary on
the abysmal state of health in the US.
Elsewhere there's Juanita (Devine), a free clinic nurse who counsels others about relationships, but remains in denial about
the abysmal state of her own.
The response surprised state board of education member David Tufaro: «We did not envision the level of hostility to the point of obscuring the facts about
the abysmal state of these 11 schools.»
This was not surprising, given that the main justification for the voucher program was
the abysmal state of Cleveland's regular public schools.
Secondly, the then military government of Ghana had put the country in
an abysmal state of financial ruin.
BEYOND THE ISSUE OF FREE: LOUSY COMPETITION The other thing that made me sure of KDP was
the abysmal state of Amazon's competitors: unfriendly user experience and lousy search capability that works against indie authors.
Nixon was seen as vulnerable because of
the abysmal state of the Vietnam War.
You have to wonder why Traveller's Tales let
this abysmal state of affairs happen, because the cut scenes are from the console versions and the Vita memory card is more than big enough to have bigger and clearer videos.
When I first pursued the research into play styles that became my book with Richard Boon, 21st Century Game Design, it was because of the recognition that marketing was valued more than game design — and with good cause (despite
the abysmal state of understanding in games marketing departments...) since marketing expenditure is a much better predictor of eventual sales than anything else.
It also testifies to
the abysmal state of the New Museum.
Climate science communication is in
an abysmal state.
Alex Manevich earlier bemoaned here on SLAW
the abysmal state of online access to Ontario court dockets.