dismally
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.
You might describe your dark, bleak bedroom as dismally lit, or talk about how your friend is so sad that all she can do is sit around sighing dismally. You could also say that your favorite baseball team is doing dismally this season, if they've lost every game. The word dismally comes from the adjective dismal, with its Medieval Latin root of dies mali, "evil or unlucky days."
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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”synonyms: dreadfully
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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”synonyms: drearily
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