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abjectly

  • a word derived from abject.
    abject
    adjective
    utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched.

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The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

"I hate the idea of my image being used to scam, it's abjectly terrible."

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Will Bayern keep going in Europe in a season when Germany’s top club has abjectly surrendered its Bundesliga title?

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Martinez found so much of herself in tapping into her abjectly silly, absurdist instincts through clown after starting in the stand-up scene in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

This abjectly simple sentence seemed to disturb Franny rather more than a continued silence would have.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger