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of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)
- It is a long, dismal walk, the Yew Alley, between two high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side.Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson (50% in)
- It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.Chapter 8 — First Report of Dr. Watson (31% in)
There are no more uses of "dismal" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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