While it is sadly too late for Ms. Peña, there is hope beyond these dismal facts.
But there was still a paper to get out in Washington, and I went there late in the afternoon to tackle the dismal job.
GBM is a devastating diagnosis for a neurosurgeon to deliver to a patient and their family, one with a dismal outcome.
It sounds like a dismal new episode of the new 24: Live Another Day.
Ryan McGarry M.D., director of the documentary Code Black, addresses the dismal state of urgent care.
This illuminated the entire room, but in a partial and dismal manner.
Many a dismal and unhappy tale might be wrought out of its other adventures.
She felt a dismal suspicion that this was going to daunt her.
The dismal Hecate did not much like the idea of going abroad into the sunny world.
Farewell to the dismal, blood-red phantom of martial renown!
c.1400, from Anglo-French dismal (mid-13c.), from Old French (li) dis mals "(the) bad days," from Medieval Latin dies mali "evil or unlucky days" (also called dies Ægyptiaci), from Latin dies "days" (see diurnal) + mali, plural of malus "bad" (see mal-).
Through the Middle Ages, calendars marked two days of each month as unlucky, supposedly based on the ancient calculations of Egyptian astrologers (Jan. 1, 25; Feb. 4, 26; March 1, 28; April 10, 20; May 3, 25; June 10, 16; July 13, 22; Aug. 1, 30; Sept. 3, 21; Oct. 3, 22; Nov. 5, 28; Dec. 7, 22). Modern sense of "gloomy, dreary" first recorded in English 1590s, in reference to sounds. Related: Dismally.
