gloomy
adjective
dark or dim; deeply shaded.
gloomily
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a word derived from
gloomy.
Example Sentences
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Barry chimes in gloomily, “I’m a surgeon and I can’t afford to buy a house.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
More gloomily, the holiday was observed against a backdrop of continued fighting.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
For the most part, Charon, whose name has never felt more gloomily appropriate, stood at an elegant, watchful remove from the violence of Wick’s world; he was a fixer and a facilitator, not a participant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
"It's been over a month of living with nothing," Neelakka Modem, a tribal woman from the western Indian state of Maharashtra, says gloomily as rain trickles down her rickety plastic tent.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2022
The sheriff shrugged yet again, gloomily regarding the fishheads.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
