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The coach will probably be replaced after such a dismal year.dismal = terrible
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I look out my window at that dismal scene and can't help but feel sad.dismal = depressing
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It is a dismal day.dismal = dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)
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When she graduated from college the job market was dismal.dismal = terrible or depressing
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It is dismal weather.dismal = terrible
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It was a dismal play with terrible acting.
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She's reporting a dismal earnings outlook for the industry.dismal = terrible or depressing
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Cautiously he reaches his hand to his behind and looks at me dismally. (source)dismally = in a depressed manner
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I had no eye, ear, or interest for anything else—that is, for usual, second-order, oatmeal, mere-phenomenal, snarled-shoelace-carfare-laundry-ticket plainness, unspecified dismalness, unknown captivities; the life of despair-harness, or the life of organization-habits which is meant to supplant accidents with calm abiding.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was well-nigh obliterated.† (source)dismalest = worst
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In the dismal weather, it would have been difficult with both hands, but with just the one, it was impossible. (source)dismal = terrible (wet and overcast)
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The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped. (source)dismally = depressingly
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"There is one pleasure, I know, Maggie, that your deepest dismalness will never resist," said Lucy, beginning to speak as soon as she entered the room.† (source)
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This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee, An unceasing death-bell tolls there.† (source)dismalest = worst
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During the brief thaw in the early afternoon there is a dismal gurgling of dirty water seeping down pipes and along gutters, a gray seamy shifting beneath the crust of snow, which cracks to show patches of frozen mud beneath. (source)dismal = depressing
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The rest of the day passed slowly, dismally.† (source)
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