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Example sentences for: dismally

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Tanenhaus submits Chambers to a genteel alchemy in which the wonderfully low is transmuted to the dismally high, and vitality is traded for status.
And David Plotz has dismally failed to change my mind.
Critics call this piece of early '80s nostalgia a "dismally unfunny farce" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). There are plenty of interesting stars (Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Ben Affleck, Janeane Garofalo), but the script, which follows a gaggle of young folks on their way to a New Year's Eve bash in Manhattan's East Village, is said to be unsalvageable.