Crossword clues for abysmally
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abysmally \A*bys"mal*ly\, adv.
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. ``Abysmally ignorant.''
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
adv. Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully. (First attested in the late 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=11)
WordNet
adv. in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably, rottenly]
Usage examples of "abysmally".
I, an abysmally incompetent layman, with the terrific task before me of finding out how it got there.
Any faithful account of police investigations, in even the most spectacular homicide case, would be abysmally dull.
Talking of Serviliuses and getting back to the grain shortage, Servilius the Augur continues to do abysmally in Sicily.
New Orleans, simply clothed in homespun cotton striped red and blue, abysmally poor and surrounded by swarms of children who all seemed to bear names like Nono and Vev6 and Bibi, cheerfully selling powdered file and alligator hides and going away again without bothering, like the Americans did, to sample the delights of the big city.
The sisters were busy with their toddlers doing that Yuppie shuffle of day care for the abysmally affluent.
The success rate for preventing recidivism was abysmally low, even with the most ambitious programs--which required strong incentives for offenders to change their view of the world.
Not only the technique but the whole spirit, the implied outlook on life, the intellectual paraphernalia of these poems are abysmally different.
I, an abysmally incompetent layman, with the terrific task before me of finding out how it got there.
Any faithful account of police investigations, in even the most spectacular homicide case, would be abysmally dull.
Prior to that he had treated Harriet abysmally, even to the point of trying to turn Clarissa against her mother.