Examples of dismal

• The story for southern labour was equally dismal.

• In fact, all four explanations are probably involved in the dismal growth record of resource-rich countries, with their relative importance varying from country to country.

• Negative moods were represented as 'sad and not exciting', 'it was very dismal', 'very depressing'.

• The inability to restructure the national guard in this manner had dismal long-term consequences for that military force.

• They, the clans, never gave each other credit for trying; it had to be the exact way or else it was a dismal failure.

• How the dismal science got its name: debating racial quackery.

• At the tertiary level, achievement records are no less dismal.

• Excluded from these data were babies who had chromosomal abnormalities with dismal prognosis, but their referrals would have no impact on the policy of management.