Many voters are abysmally ignorant of even very basic political information.
Students scored abysmally on their geographic knowledge.
Yet the average standard of language learning is abysmally low, particularly for such a highly literate and educated society.
Despite the effort, the (theoretical) rates of convergence of the h-version of discrete differential forms can be abysmally poor.
By the mid-1940s, fringe benefits became increasingly elaborate to compensate for abysmally low wages and to prevent flight.
Doctors and nurses are poorly trained and abysmally paid.
How can he be so abysmally complacent against the background of these disgraceful unemployment figures?