dismal

A dull and dismal light was shed over the bedclothes and curtains surrounding the young girl.

It is a long, dismal walk, the yew alley, between two high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side.

There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.

There, there, child, don’t look so dismal.