How To Use Dismally In A Sentence
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in August 1914, there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future
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And there might have to be, if not a long twilight struggle, then at least a serious all-nighter with some dismally poor lighting.
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I tried not to laugh but failed dismally .
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Villeroy, whom Henry was wont to call the pedagogue of the council, went about sighing dismally, wishing himself dead, and perpetually ejaculating, "Ho! poor France, how much hast thou still to suffer!
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
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He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.
Vanity Fair
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Sometimes, then, you are 'blued' most dismally, like the balance of unphilosophic men and women, eh?
Beulah
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And they had played dismally for three days, evidently underprepared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The "Parker Spitzer" lead-in averaged 471,000 total viewers, meaning that "Parker Spitzer" lost 17,000 total viewers from the already dismally-rated 7PM hour.
'Parker Spitzer' Ratings: CNN Show Debuts In LAST
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He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.
Vanity Fair
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I'm so dismally slumbersome that if I keep you to help me, I shall fall asleep on your hands.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
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Therefore, not to mention his clothes, which had seen three months' service in mire and dust, and his thick uncombed hair, the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded.
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The climate of Messina, he will further arene, must have been a wet one, inasmuch as there are umbrellas everywhere, standing upright among the debris, leaning all forlorn against the ruins, or peering dismally from under them.
Old Calabria
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Merely in pyjamas I headed for the poop, Possum wailing dismally at my desertion.
CHAPTER XXX
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Reginald stared dismally at the biscuit-tin, which now presented an unattractive array of rejected cracknels.
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I have been hoist with my own petard, I thought dismally, as we sat awkwardly in her consulting room.
RESCUING ROSE
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Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally.
The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
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They failed dismally to translate their periods of dominancy into sufficient scores that could have salvaged something from this game.
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He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.
Vanity Fair
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Elaine put the last animal cracker in her mouth and chewed dismally.
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The whole tone of this administration is dismally unambitious.
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The movies were the primary retailers of the myth, and Hollywood failed dismally in its attempts to sell the dangers of the international conspiracy.
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Kerry and Cork confrontations normally generate a good degree of passion but this contest failed dismally on that score.
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Never has his favourite phrase sounded so dismally precise: My, my, ain't the world strange.
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And so the Duke, satirically amused at the obvious embarrassment of the other "notabilities" assembled, did nothing whatsoever to relieve or to lighten the conversation, which remained so utterly dull and inane that Alwyn, who had been compelled, for politeness 'sake, to appear interested in the account of a bicycle race detailed to him by a very masculine looking lady-doctor whose seat at table was next his own, began to feel a little weary, and to wonder dismally how long this "feast of reason and flow of soul" was going to last.
Ardath
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as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed
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It was the high-flying brent who, knowing how the sensitive girl, made keenly conscious at every turn of her defective training and ingenuous ignorance, had often watched their evening flight with longing gaze, now "honked" dismally at the recollection.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
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Both failed dismally, and not merely for technical economic reasons.
After Thatcher
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Almost all of us then try to remember the date, fail dismally, feel inadequate and ashamed and resolve to be more attentive to our mothers.
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All the contestants on the show fared dismally, with no-one winning over $16,000.
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So far, the government has failed dismally to respond to this epidemic.
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He failed dismally in his opening match.
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They promised much in this campaign but in the end failed dismally to deliver.
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Since the currency was launched in a blaze of euphoria it has failed dismally to realise the potential which its supporters claimed it offered.
