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Sentence count:159+5Posted:2016-08-12Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bleakdarkdepressingdrearygloomymiserableAntonym: cheerfulmerrySimilar words: smalldismissas manymallspokesmanmaleformalbusinessmanMeaning: ['dɪzməl]  adj. causing dejection. 
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31. It looked dismal enough when I saw it, as if given right over to darkness.
32. They stood on the concrete steps reviewing the dismal scene as if it were a personal insult.
33. Jimmy Johnstone's life after football has been a catalogue of defeats and dismal failures.
34. Since November, the pace of borrowing likely slowed as department and chain stores reported dismal holiday sales.
35. And he was going to give a rocket to Show-Off, whose performance on the publicity front had been absolutely dismal.
36. Scattered about, a few large, forlorn sunflowers make a game attempt to brighten a scene of dismal rural poverty.
37. It was a dismal failure, and was followed by restrictive legislation against the unions and by victimization of many union activists.
38. The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.
39. Aside from the dismal academic record of ability grouping, it has a divisive social consequence as well.
40. But we could all do with a few less stuffed velvet Loch Ness monsters and dismal cafeterias that smell of incontinence.
41. As usual, some stocks were hit hard because they delivered dismal news.
42. The people in the business had lost confidence in themselves and all in all it was a dismal picture.
43. The dank and dismal cliff faces were hanging with squabbling bird life.
44. They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors.
45. Half-facet ... Obispal spotted a lone purestrain Stealer lurking some way down a dismal arcade lined by shuttered clothing stores.
46. The day over, they went back to dark and dismal stables at the rear of the yard.
47. They paint a dismal picture for patients suffering from chronic pain.
48. A further dismal feature of the evening is Hall's penchant for the unsurprising surprise.
49. Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal.
50. Average shop-floor wages of 10,000-15,000 roubles a month are low, even by Yekaterinburg's dismal standards.
51. I understood that things could have been far more dismal than they were.
52. Coleraine boss Billy Sinclair must have shuddered as he watched his side's dismal performance.
53. But, for a few months,(http://sentencedict.com/dismal.html) de Lattre infused his troops with the conviction that they might redress the dismal situation.
54. Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
55. He returned home in a black and dismal mood which was not dispelled by finding his house empty.
56. He stood on the sideline, shouting at teammates seated in front of him, cursing the Raiders' dismal state.
57. After a moment he rose slowly, poured himself a whisky, returned to the Chesterfield and took a dismal sip.
58. The academic record of many poor black students is dismal and getting worse.
59. The prospects were pleasing even on this dismal day in the gathering gloom.
60. The couple lived in a dismal apartment in the poorest section of town.
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