| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| abject (adj.) |
| Abject poverty is a cliché, and in that use abject may be only an intensifier. In other uses it seems to retain its full meanings, “miserable, degraded, without self-respect, of the lowest kind”: He cowered at home, sunk in abject despair. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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