dismally
/ˈdɪzm(ə)li
/adverb
1In a gloomy or depressed manner: we drove round dismally the wolves howl dismally...
- God, I'm short, she thought, dismally glaring into the mirror.
- I remember leaning out of a high window in a dismally grey, downtown apartment building in Rotterdam.
- It's dismally cold the morning we take the boat over to Anacapa Island.
1.1 informal In a disgracefully bad way: the second half was a disappointment with both teams performing dismally the scheme failed dismally...
- Participation in retirement plans is dismally low, especially for low-income workers.
- The reasons why the United States lags dismally behind the rest of the western world in media education are many.
- This time their debut, Love Me Do, reached number four, but the rest flopped dismally.
- Miss Milligan
- Miss Nancy
- Missolonghi
- missort
- missorted
- missorting
- Missoula
- Missouri
- Missourian
- Missouri Compromise
- Missouri currant
- Missouri gooseberry
- Missouri gourd
- Missouri mule
- Missouri primrose
- Missouri question
- Missouri sucker
- missourite
- Missourium
- miss-out
- misspeak
- misspell
- misspelling
- misspend
- misspender