dismally

Adverb

• in a dreadful manner
  • as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed
    

• in a cheerless manner
  • in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future
    

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• Synonyms: 
  dreadfully , drearily