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adjective

abject

CEFR C2

of the most contemptible kind

In a sentence

Six example sentences with abject, each labelled with its topic.

  • The poem's speaker calls his own silence abject, a cowardice he cannot excuse by pointing at anyone else.

    Literature

  • Two rounds of funding vanished into an abject product that the founders themselves refused to install on their own phones.

    Startups

  • The minister's abject excuse, that nobody had told him about the missing money, satisfied neither the press nor his party.

    Politics

  • The abject defending in the third quarter let a reserve guard score twenty points without a hand in his face.

    Basketball

  • The sequel was an abject failure, so poorly made that the studio pulled it from cinemas after one weekend.

    Movies

  • The company's abject customer service, with calls going unanswered for weeks, cost it the contract.

    Business

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