dismally

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There was an extremely similar attempt at this, worml [1] that failed dismally.

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Quick take

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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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"

Definitions

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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"

Example sentences

There was an extremely similar attempt at this, worml [1] that failed dismally.

When you're scrapping at the free games it's a pretty dismally inefficient learning tool.

I had a false start way back 4 years ago when I spent a week looking for freelancing work on those sites & failed dismally.

THQ is a good example of a publisher that tried to mimic the big dogs, and failed dismally because of it.

It may be that the game sold dismally and a story about piracy might have gotten them developer a ton more PR than the game ever would've;2.

90% of the startups you speak to in any meetup are probably doing dismally, but you'll almost never hear them say anything negative until they suddenly fold and start doing something else.

If you are a reasonably accomplished coder you know, without a shred of a doubt, that $600 million dollars to implement the ACA portal --brilliantly or dismally-- is nothing else than obscene, if not criminal.

And everything I've seen linked on HN on this topic fails dismally in articulating this case in a way that doesn't presuppose an audience that already agrees with the anti-surveillance position.