dismally in English

adverb

['dis·mal·ly || 'dɪzməlɪ]

gloomily, sadly, cheerlessly

Use "dismally" in a sentence

1. Everything was dismally still.

2. The play flopped dismally.

3. He began to howl dismally.

4. Fei Little Beard assented dismally.

5. I lay there dismally calculating.

6. They have also suffered dismally with injuries.

7. He failed dismally in his opening match.

8. I tried not to laugh but failed dismally .

9. The mousy man sat on the suitcase panting dismally.

10. The peasants were dismally disheartened by the long drought.

11. Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally.

12. The doubters seemed vindicated when the team performed dismally in the cup qualifiers.

13. He failed dismally where the woman was slightly experienced and possessed innate refinement.

14. She woke while she was still misty, and miaowled dismally, and someone came knocking.

15. They are more like a succession of monologues read out before a dismally empty assembly.

16. Never has his favourite phrase sounded so dismally precise: My, my, ain't the world strange.

17. She woke; while she was still misty and calling out dismally, and someone came knocking.

18. The burger tasted awful, had a limited market, and failed dismally which is really no surprise.

19. Perhaps it was just as well, Eline thought dismally, she was barren, unable to bear a child.

20. The result is all too dismally on display in our daily newspapers and on our television screens.

21. Soon it was raining hard enough, Stephen noted dismally, to keep him off the moor for the evening.

22. Shortly afterwards, he went off to the Demob Centre and I left dismally on my last posting to Scampton.

23. ‘The outdoor season promises more such Confrontations.’ ‘He never shuns a confrontation and is an inspiration to the rest of the players’ ‘Kerry and Cork Confrontations normally generate a good degree of passion but this contest failed dismally on that score.’

24. At the 1992 conference and AGM in New Brunswick, dub poet and conference keynote speaker Lillian Allen challenged the audience to acknowledge the dismally low number of people of colour and First Nations artists present at the event; she then invited those people of colour and First Nations participants present to caucus.