Words similar to dismal

Example sentences for: dismal

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The dismal spin: Poor law enforcement is what allowed these crimes to happen in the first place.
The Dismal Ideologue
Directing (by Hark Tsui) and cinematography are said to be imaginative and the Hong Kong scenery interesting, but the performance of "the Belgian blowhard" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ) is dismal.
(And feel-good optimism sells much better than dismal realism.)
Krugman's column will henceforth be known as "The Dismal Science," a phrase too famous to be ownable by anyone, except possibly British essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), who coined it.