Unless you happen to like abject poverty, violence, domestic desperation, and drugs.

The state of women is upon the whole very abject in Dahomy.

There, cowering in the hall, in abject terror, was De Luxe Dora.

The hour vanished in a slow mist of abject misery and shame.

She was the abject slave of man in nearly all the world.

And he prostrated himself in abject submission before the half dead Mole.

The mother was an unlovely object in her abject sorrow and despair.

They are the fathers of the Council of Nicæa, in rags, abject.

Now it's Sunday, and the Vegas' concern has turned to abject panic.

I therefore squatted down, in a state of the most abject wretchedness.

To tell the truth, I was in an abject state of fear.

They exaggerate the importance of the physical and become its abject slaves.

I demanded their release- Iimplored-Ibegged-Iprayedin the most abject terms.

She had risen convulsively and had drawn back in abject, cowering terror.

The abject poverty of the whole of this country is beyond description.

Nothing but abject poverty, cruel, gaunt want stares me in the face.