But the notions espoused in this question are really abjectly ridiculous and, I felt, deserved a response in kind.

FORBES: By all means.

Before long, his Administration was abjectly backtracking on its bravado.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But by the time Mr Blair summoned her home in October 1999 she had failed abjectly to retain the trust of the Ulster Unionists and their leader, David Trimble.

ECONOMIST: The lady vanishes

Dr Chisholm said that the independent pay review body - which recommends GP pay levels to the governmment - had "abjectly" failed to make any of the changes needed to attract new GPs into medicine.

BBC: GP fury over pay award

For at least three years European bankers and ministers have abjectly avoided facing up to their bad debts, which are largely sovereign notes issued under the cover of a single currency and held by mostly Euro banks as prime credits.

FORBES: Europe's Twilight Struggle to Man Up

For at least three years European bankers and ministers have abjectly avoided the courageous act of facing up to their bad debts, which are largely sovereign notes issued under the cover of a single currency and held by mostly Euro banks as prime credits.

FORBES: Side Lines

In the span of 24 hours this week, the two most important (for now) publicly traded social networking companies in the world, Facebook ( FB) and LinkedIn ( LNKD), each made fairly minor strategic moves that did a magnificent job of highlighting the major differences not only in their corporate identities but why investors have thus far embraced one and abjectly shunned the other.

FORBES: Connect