adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abject/dismal failure (= used to emphasize how bad a failure is )
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The experiment was considered a dismal failure.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
failure
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Jimmy Johnstone's life after football has been a catalogue of defeats and dismal failures .
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This debate will no doubt continue, and clearly no project is either a complete success or a dismal failure .
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It was a dismal failure . 1926-27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers.
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They are especially dismal failures in this regard because in fact they support these prejudices.
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It was a dismal failure , and was followed by restrictive legislation against the unions and by victimization of many union activists.
performance
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Is this because of that dismal performance against Norwich?
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But the dismal performance in Boston will make many fans think our top players are overvalued and overpaid.
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In a country so used to dismal performances the prospect of a player scoring with such consummate style was rare indeed.
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Coleraine boss Billy Sinclair must have shuddered as he watched his side's dismal performance .
record
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Over the decades, the economic summits have had a dismal record of understanding what was happening in the real world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dismal economic news
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a dismal , gray afternoon
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It was a grey, dismal November afternoon.
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Melinda joined her husband in Moscow, but soon found life there bleak and dismal .
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The couple lived in a dismal apartment in the poorest section of town.
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The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was a dismal moment for the pastry shop that Majed Makhoul had opened two months earlier in Qlaia.
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I understood that things could have been far more dismal than they were.
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Instead there would be the dismal apparatus of mutual suspicion familiar to every accountant.
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It looked dismal enough when I saw it, as if given right over to darkness.
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The forecast had been dismal but wrong.
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Visitors to the camps went home with dismal stories to relate....