All 3 Uses

dismal
in
The Minister's Black Veil
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If ever another wedding were so dismal, it was that famous one where they tolled the wedding knell.†

dismal = depressing or gloomy
This dismal shade must separate me from the world:
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dismal = depressing
In this manner Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and joy, but ever summoned to their aid in mortal anguish.†

dismal = depressing or gloomy

Definitions:

(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)