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dismally

/diz-muhl/US // ˈdɪz məl //UK // (ˈdɪzməl) //

令人沮丧的是,凄惨地,惨淡地,沮丧地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
    • : characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game.
    • : Obsolete. disastrous; calamitous.unlucky; sinister.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.

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Examples

  • Many of the evictions taking place will go through housing courts, which have historically had dismal outcomes for defendants.

  • The news you focus on doesn’t have to be so dark and dismal, either.

  • For years, the conversation about local news has been almost entirely a dismal one.

  • When I asked oil and gas industry insiders why Pembina would push so hard for a project with such dismal economic prospects, they offered a startling explanation.

  • A study of articles published in 2009 across 10 biomedical disciplines showed a dismal picture.

  • Here and there however a few shrubs partially concealed the sand, and gave a variety to the scene which was dismally triste.

  • As Gale and Phyllis lay down on their bed of boughs in the tent with Valerie, a coyote howled dismally in the distance.

  • My cow lowed dismally, and wouldn't eat, when I sold her calf; but she soon got used to doing without it.

  • When I got back to the house already dismally affected, I was still more sadly downcast at the sight of Mary.

  • The fire was a good blaze before he entered, limping dismally into the kitchen.