dismal
/ˈdɪzməl/ noun C2- A dreary swamp in eastern North Carolina or Virginia in the United States.
Plural dismals
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There, there, child, don’t look so dismal.
That was a dismal morning.
That dinner was a very dismal meal.
With a dismal sigh she went for the scissors.
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