dismal science
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Perhaps, with new technologies and methods of analysis, they can become even rarer, enabling economics to shed the image of a dismal science.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
I’ll inject some of my dismal science here: Saying that a recession is on the horizon doesn’t sound optimistic, but in a buyer’s housing market, there are some positives to recessions.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2023
If economics is "the dismal science," should we start calling polling "the abysmal science"?
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2023
You'd think in the 21st century, practitioners of the dismal science would have found some way to control inflation other than putting people out of work.
From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2022
He fought most fiercely against the conclusions of political economy, "the dismal science" which, he said, affirmed that men were guided exclusively by their stomachs.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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