Adjective

(en adjective)

Disappointingly inadequate.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport

, title= Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}

Gloomy and bleak.

Depressing.

*, chapter=12

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}

Adjective

(er)

Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.

Gloomy, dark, dim.

Obscure, indistinct, cloudy.

Dishonest, shady.