Both Uses
dismal
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- Mysterious though the ghost may at first appear, he will always be more easily explained than the dismal story in which malevolent people have tried to picture two brothers killing each other who had worshiped each other all their lives.†
Chpt Prol.dismal = depressing or gloomy
- He spent a dismal day in town and did not recover his spirits until the evening, when he was seated in his compartment in the Brittany express.†
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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)