Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dismally"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dismally \Dis"mal*ly\, adv.
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dismally
adv 1: 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" [syn: {drearily}]
2: 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" [syn: {dreadfully}]
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