Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dismal; that which is dismal.
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- noun The quality or state of being
dismal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I always try to dress for the part, and the part just now is dismality.
The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891
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The desert of Sahara is somewhat dismal, I daresay; but in its dismality there is at least a flavour of romance, a smack of adventure.
Birds of Prey 1875
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Marian's mind was made up, and she withstood all the persuasions of Gerald and Agnes that it was nothing -- nonsense -- only Clara's dismality -- they would laugh at her for coming for nothing.
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The recent emergence of Bobby Jindal and Rush Limbaugh in the intraparty maelstrom yet affords fresh opportunities for conservative dismality.
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Anna Seward, for example, found Smith's dramatisation of her own life in her writing deeply improper and unfeminine, lampooning Smith for what she perceived as the improper washing of her dirty laundry in public and characterised her sonnets as 'everlasting lamentables [and] hackneyed scraps of dismality'. [
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