Gloomy in a sentence as an adjective

* A lot of the perception of "gloomy" Soviet people come from pictures people see.

One thing I've noticed is how ******* gloomy everyone looks.

The 2-3 nice months in summer are all you get before the continuously gloomy rest of the year.

He deserves a lot of credit for keeping the banner in the air in the gloomy early and mid-2000s.

My dreams, while very vivid and pleasant the first night, become more gloomy and depressing the second night.

While the other points are gloomy-doomy and a bit vague, this one lends itself to a concrete solution, doesn't it?

Personally, I don't think the situation is nearly as gloomy in the US as a lot of my fellows seem to.

Whenever this comes up, there are always gloomy posts saying that we will never defeat the patent lobby.

If you're gloomy in solidarity with their misfortune, your stock takes a hit as it looks like your company has lost hope.

Instead of your commute killing you, the gloomy, bitterly cold weather in the Northeast will be killing you half of the year.

Seattle weather is gloomy by California standards, but it's actually not that bad. If you're from the northeast, you won't notice much of a difference, except for the winters being slightly warmer and the summers being cooler.

" because it's taken as self-evident that Soviet-style communism was a gloomy, depressing system so "of course" people hit the vodka.

Get bright, sun-spectrum, non-gloomy lighting for the "day", get dim-to-nonexistent lighting for "night", and establish a schedule for switching between them.

Yes, there are a handful of cafes around and you can find a few blocks that are busier, but in general it just feels like a generic chunk of tall buildings I found it pretty gloomy.

I made the background color behind the text a light grey so it's not as gloomy as the current site and used a dark grey font rather than the black on current site to improve faster reading.

Headcounts and projects are written up and assigned by gloomy, bureaucratic committees detached from the actual heartbeat of the business.

The origins of a large proportion of the British video games industry can be traced directly to a teenager, a Speccy, a blank tape and a particularly gloomy August.

Therefore, although it is of course a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out -- at least I suppose we may say so, although sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation -- it is not such as to render life miserable.

The UK government estimated in the 1950s that three H-bombs would be all it would take to destroy the UK as a functioning society - the UK ambassador in Moscow even had a drunken debate with Kruschev on this point - suggesting that the hundreds of weapons the Soviets had pointing at the UK were complete overkill...[Edit 2]The UK government was always pretty gloomy/realistic about the likely impact of a nuclear war on the UK - basically even in fairly optimistic scenarios such as the Square Leg exercise used as the basis for Threads were absolutely awful.

Gloomy definitions

adjective

depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

See also: glooming gloomful sulky

adjective

filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

adjective

causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"