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Six example sentences with abysmal, each labelled with its topic.
The probe's first images were abysmal, so blurred and streaked that the team could not tell a crater from a shadow.
Science
The student's first essay on Kant was abysmal, misquoting the categorical imperative and confusing it with a proverb.
Philosophy
Critics called the sequel abysmal, a book so clumsy that even loyal readers abandoned it before the third chapter.
Literature
The team's free-throw shooting was abysmal, under fifty percent for the month, and it cost them three close games.
Basketball
The port's frame rate was abysmal, dropping into single digits whenever more than three enemies appeared on screen.
Gaming
My first attempt at souffle was abysmal, a flat brown puck that the dog sniffed and walked away from.
Cooking
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