Both Uses
dismal
in
The Graveyard Book
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- Dismal.†
p. 128.1dismal = depressing or gloomy
- It was a request stop on the side of the hill, just past a large pair of open iron gates, and it looked uninviting and dismal.†
p. 219.6 *
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)