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Meanings of dismally in English

Portuguese
terrivelmente

In a dreadful manner.

terrivelmente

In a cheerless manner.

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Examples for "drearily"
Examples for "drearily"
1
The door flapped drearily and added to the desolation of the scene.
Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy
2
Without, the young man could see roofs drearily white in the dawning.
Men, Women, and Boats
3
The rain still fell drearily and spattered the page as he read.
The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
4
Carrying, it dawned on me drearily, the legend home to the faithful.
Woken furies
5
The sound echoed drearily through the empty rooms, but no servant came.
Japanese Literature / Including Selections from Genji Monogatari...
Usage of dismally in English
1
For the amount of effort involved, it was a dismally unproductive week.
The Irish Times
2
In the meantime the tailor grew worse, and began to moan dismally.
For the Term of His Natural Life
3
The bare boughs were whipped about in the gale, and creaked dismally.
The Forest Runners: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kent...
4
The night effects of that particular neighbourhood have always affected me dismally.
The Inheritors
5
People spoke of it in awed tones and shook their heads dismally.
Christopher Columbus
6
Sitting in a circle, the wolves lifted their heads and howled dismally.
The Rover Boys In The Mountains; Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune
7
The old man smiled in his most saturnine fashion and sighed dismally.
The Black Pearl
8
Both lived long enough to see their own literary reputations fade dismally.
The burglar who liked to quote kipling
9
The sunken rocks are dismally named after the vessels they have destroyed.
For the Term of His Natural Life
10
Although the light was thus dismally shrouded, the prospect was not obscured.
No Thoroughfare
11
Then the far-off howl of a wolf struck dismally on his ear.
Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
12
She was holding on to the tail of his jacket, sniffling dismally.
The Story of Dago
13
Their consternation was however very great, and they howled and lamented dismally.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
14
He worked away dismally at his letters till he had finished them.
Psmith in the City
15
At noon they lined up for mess again, ate dismally and hurriedly.
Three Soldiers
16
Humpty looked dismally at his surroundings, and continued to swing his legs.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
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Translations for dismally
Portuguese
terrivelmente
Dismally through the time
Dismally across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common