Use the adverb dismally to describe something that happens in a gloomy or disappointing way. Your campaign for student council president has failed dismally if you only end up with one vote.
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
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in a dreadful manner; "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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in a cheerless manner; "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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In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully;
uncomfortably.
Dismally
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
Usage Examples
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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