Adverb
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
Source: Webster's dictionaryas 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 Source: Internet
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 Source: Internet
The ruling Swapo Party has pooled its resources to redeem itself at the regional council election at Walvis Bay, where the party president lost dismally against the independent candidate in the November presidential and National Assembly elections. Source: Internet
Next, we get clips of Kirsten Gillibrand, Robert O’Rourke, and other dismally failed Democrat presidential candidates. Source: Internet
Paris, preparing to host a UN conference on climate change in less than 50 days, is desperately hoping it won’t become a second Flopenhagen, the derisory epithet coined by French diplomats after the 2010 Copenhagen conference dismally failed to deliver. Source: Internet
And yet they failed dismally to pose any kind of threat. Source: Internet