All 16 Uses
dismal
in
Little Women
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- "I was trying to get something for Meg, who is very tired, and someone shook me, and here I am in a nice state," answered Jo, glancing dismally from the stained skirt to the coffee-colored glove.†
p. 33.9
- Wouldn't it be fun?" answered Jo, yawning dismally.†
p. 36.2
- Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state.†
p. 38.7 *dismal = depressing or gloomy
- It's been such a dismal day I'm really dying for some amusement," said Meg, as they sat sewing together that evening.†
p. 43.6
- All alone and sick this dismal day.†
p. 49.8
- Home now looked bare and dismal as she thought of it, work grew harder than ever, and she felt that she was a very destitute and much-injured girl, in spite of the new gloves and silk stockings.†
p. 90.9
- I wanted to amuse him one night when you were all away, and he was rather dismal.†
p. 149.9
- Don't be dismal or fret, but do your duty and you'll get your reward, as good Mr. Brooke has, by being respected and loved.†
p. 154.4
- Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have.†
p. 237.4
- The tea bell rang before he had finished describing the paradise which he meant to earn for Meg, and he proudly took her in to supper, both looking so happy that Jo hadn't the heart to be jealous or dismal.†
p. 249.9
- Well, now, don't be dismal, there's a good fellow.†
p. 251.6
- Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dismally.†
p. 296.6
- Being sure that no one could do it so well as herself, she went straight to Mr. Laurence, told the hard story bravely through, and then broke down, crying so dismally over her own insensibility that the kind old gentleman, though sorely disappointed, did not utter a reproach.†
p. 395.5
- Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.†
p. 423.1dismal = depressing or gloomy
- This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for 'Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.†
p. 426.9
- It won't do to be dismal now.†
p. 484.9dismal = depressing or gloomy
Definitions:
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(1)
(dismal) of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)