Dismal ?

The status is bleak.

It all looks pretty bleak.

Sounds very dismal.

Oh it was a dismal noise!

The sky's as blue as a tragedy.

Now, let me hit a somber note.

Before, I always looked glum.

Rousseff s administration faces a dismal outlook.

This month we are commemorating a doleful anniversary.

They're depressing, they're upsetting, they're unhappy.

That's the dreariest town in Italy.

The ambiance is too stiff. Tell them to act happier.

It had been a bleak ordeal, like a harsh winter.

That is not a platitude it is a grim reality.

The present world economic situation is very grim.

All of us in our 60s and 70s have comparable depressing stories.

It's sad and humid, and no one wants to work.

'When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress,

They were pretty, but it was no fun.

Yet the economic outlook still looks grim.

These abuses triggered a mass movement of people in dire humanitarian circumstances.

However, with the devastation caused by the tsunami, our situation has become very dire.

On the other hand, in half of the developing world the picture remains bleak.

You could roll them up, send them ahead of you, and in the time it took to hang them up, you could transform a cold, dank interior into a richly colored setting.

I think we've all read the Grimms' fairy tales, which are, indeed, very grim.

Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.

Or do they just assume the ocean is just a dark, gloomy place that has nothing to offer?

I used to think this city was bleak and sad, but it was me!

Life isn't meant to be dreary, it's meant to be exciting.

There's nothing as dreary as the view from this window on a dreary evening, is there?

So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place, but I promise there is good news.

Europe s leaders will not surmount this crisis by pounding their citizens with bleak demands for austerity.

The terrible earthquake that struck Maharashtra in September was a sombre reminder of that.

Ms. Luz Rexach (National Advancement for Puerto Rican Culture, Inc.) said that the situation in Puerto Rico was very sad.

Yet prospects for improvements in living conditions in much of Africa in the short run remain bleak.

He says that without her, my woods lack poetry, and his gamekeeper's job seems utterly dreary.

Indeed, G 20 governments now face the daunting prospect of trying to rein in the monster they have created.

I feel as if nothing could ever touch me, he said in a tone of sombre conviction.

I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.

The songs of Fito Paéz, another popular artist, rise through the air, accompanied by the necessary melancholy intoned by the crowds.

Published blogger and copywriter Constantina Delimitrou paints a glum picture of the financial insecurity gripping the minds and bodies of Greeks

It s bleak, but among these stories there is still humor, warmth, and resilience.

Tapestries were portable. You could roll them up, send them ahead of you, and in the time it took to hang them up, you could transform a cold, dank interior into a richly colored setting.

So the prospects for most developing countries including those that had done everything right are bleak.