Both Uses of
dismal
in
Mansfield Park
- I declare, when I got back to Sotherton yesterday, it looked like a prison—quite a dismal old prison.
Chpt 6 *dismal = gloomy or depressing
- …poor Miss Crawford, who had just been contemplating the dismal rain in a very desponding state of mind, sighing over the ruin of all her plan of exercise for that morning, and of every chance of seeing a single creature beyond themselves for the next twenty-four hours,
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(dismal) of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)