Both Uses
dismal
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Cujo
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- He had made it halfway through his sandwich as Vic reviewed the dismal train of events in his mind.†
*dismal = depressing or gloomy
- I've become the fabled Great American Housewife, she had thought dismally one day last winter, watching sleet spick and spack down against the porch storm windows.†
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)