The Superintendent trundled steadily forward: he had expected these outbursts of insolence—they are the natural gestures of an inferior race, and he betrayed no hatred of Aziz, merely an abysmal contempt.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
He could see the stars and their distance lent an abysmal solitude to the gloom.
James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage
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Merriam-Webster
— immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad
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Macmillan
— extremely bad or low in quality
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Usage
1 use of ‘abysmal’ in A Gentleman of Courage, by James Oliver Curwood
1 use of ‘abysmal’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster