utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.
shamelessly servile; slavish.
Obsolete. cast aside.
Origin of abject
1400–50; late Middle English <Latin abjectus thrown down (past participle of abicere, abjicere), equivalent to ab-ab- + -jec- throw + -tus past participle suffix
So this decision to open things back up, right before Labor Day, from people who do believe in collective action to contain this virus, is abject nonsense.
Team Reopen: 2, Schools: 0|Scott Lewis|August 31, 2020|Voice of San Diego
America’s abject failure to deal adequately with the biggest global health emergency in a century has prompted some experts to argue that the pandemic may serve as a geopolitical inflection point.
Covid-19 and the geopolitics of American decline|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”
The Secret to Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy: His Father|W. James Antle III|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The girls helped their mothers prepare a simple meal as the men smoked outside and reflected on their abject state.
ISIS Robs Christians Fleeing Its Edict in Mosul: Convert, Leave, or Die|Andrew Slater|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But in any narrative, if the protagonist is going to be at the center of a sea of abject joy and triumph, someone has to lose.
LeBron James: The Yoko Ono of The Heatles|Robert Silverman|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Featuring headache-inducing black-and-red graphics, the Virtual Boy was an abject failure.
The Game You Wear on Your Face: Virtual Reality Is Finally Here|Alec Kubas-Meyer|May 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No, this brief delay must be a sign that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act is destined to result in abject failure.
The GOP Is Terrified Obamacare Could Be a Success|Jon Favreau|July 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Khalifa told off Lupton Bey, who at that time was living in the most abject poverty, as his assistant.
Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892|F. R. Wingate
Divitis servi maxime servi—Servants to the rich are the most abject.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
Johnny's abject tone—he who had been so high-chested in the past—may have had its effect upon the boss.
Skyrider|B. M. Bower
The mother was an unlovely object in her abject sorrow and despair.
A True Friend|Adeline Sergeant
Then, in the midst of this abject self-pity, I was stricken with shame.