abysmal failure

collocation in English

meaningsofabysmalandfailure

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abysmal
adjective
uk
/əˈbɪz.məl/us
/əˈbɪz.məl/
very ...
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failure
noun
uk
/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us
/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofabysmalandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The scheme was anabysmalfailureeven while forced labour was tolerated.
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He hopes that he will be able to distract attention from theabysmalfailurethat has become self-evident across the whole of housing policy.
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Sometimes the decision to opt for a private school results from theabysmalfailureof nearby local authority comprehensive schools.
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It is pretty obvious that the policy of privatisation is anotherabysmalfailure.
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In hisabysmalfailureto do so, he produced two highly questionable hypotheses.
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Once again, the housing support grant is anabysmalfailure.
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Why has there been such anabysmalfailure?
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Does he believe that it will show theabysmalfailurethat most people in the country perceive?
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He believes that those levies are necessary because voluntarism has been such anabysmalfailurewhere it has been adopted.
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They must know that their policies are anabysmalfailure.
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Clearly they have been anabysmalfailurein many respects.
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What seems to have been wholly forgotten, however, is that this has emerged largely as a reflection of theabysmalfailureof a system.
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I agree that theirabysmalfailureon law and order contributed to their election defeat last year.
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Today we are debating theabysmalfailureof the so-called law and order party to deal with the consequences of crime.
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The original policy of dispersal to certain areas has been anabysmalfailure.
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That criticism shows a ratherabysmalfailureto grasp the full magnitude of the existing problem of unmet legal needs.
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In my opinion, it will prove to be anabysmalfailureto substitute other machinery for them.
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Allowing a child to leave with less than the achievements of which he or she is capable is the mostabysmalfailureof a society.
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We have seen theabysmalfailurewhich has attended those much-lauded promises.
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The previous law asked trustees to opt into an amalgamation and it has clearly been anabysmalfailure.
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