All 7 Uses of
dismal
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- There, there, child, don't look so dismal.†
Chpt 12
- That was a dismal morning.†
Chpt 14 *
- That dinner was a very dismal meal.†
Chpt 14
- But I forgot the flour and the cake was a dismal failure.†
Chpt 16
- With a dismal sigh she went for the scissors.†
Chpt 27
- "It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn't it?" she said dismally.†
Chpt 32
- She looked dismally about her narrow little room, with its dull-papered, pictureless walls, its small iron bedstead and empty book-case; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of her own white room at Green Gables, where she would have the pleasant consciousness of a great green still outdoors, of sweet peas growing in the garden, and moonlight falling on the orchard, of the brook below the slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it, of a vast…†
Chpt 34
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)