2 uses
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Definition
of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)
- It was so dismal there that I left!5 — The Woman Pays (53% in)
- It is rather dismal.6 — The Convert (82% in)
There are no more uses of "dismal" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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