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Dismally   /dˈɪzməli/   Listen
Dismally

adverb
1.
In a cheerless manner.  Synonym: drearily.
2.
In a dreadful manner.  Synonym: dreadfully.





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"Dismally" Quotes from Famous Books



... way, and then stopped and listened. He could hear the stream rumbling over the stones, but not another sound. Then the far-off howl of a wolf struck dismally on his ear. Twice it sounded and passed away, leaving the silence more intense, while all the time the air grew colder. All at once a dead branch snapped sharply. Estein looked round keenly, but in the dusk of the pine stems his eye could pick out nothing. For a minute everything ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston
 
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... a close carriage was at the gate, well guarded. Mr Mayor and his green-eyed clerk took their seats with the prisoner: and the heavy vehicle rumbled dismally through the now deserted streets, wakening many a ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
 
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... conclude, observing the number of decayed pianofortes, guitars, and mandolines. The climate of Messina, he will further arene, must have been a wet one, inasmuch as there are umbrellas everywhere, standing upright among the debris, leaning all forlorn against the ruins, or peering dismally from under them. It rained much during those awful days, and umbrellas were at a premium. Yet fifty of them would not have purchased a loaf ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
 
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... a study. "Oh!" cried he dismally, "what wit! . . . give three rousing cheers!" . . . He mounted once more. "Well! there's no denying you are one hell ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
 
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... delight came from the various rooms where tryings-on were proceeding. "Every one seems happy but me," thought Judith dismally when ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett
 
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