Adjective : dismal weather. ,Our team played a dismal game.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was as if dismalness had soaked through and through everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

This morning shone as bright as if it meant to make up for all the dismalness of the past days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

He could imagine the dismalness of Hampton, when contrasted with the brightness of Northumberland.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

Upstairs, in the fading light from the evening windows, the dismalness of the abandoned house became sad and wistful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homebody]

SMITH: You know, I sometimes get the feeling that all the darkness and dismalness you write about and we hear in this album, that it's a little bit of a front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Malin: Rock 'N' Roll From The Bowery] Reference

–It is worth noting that the communist dictum, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” is a pollution of male-brain dismalness with uncharacteristic female-brain chipperness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose voice?] Reference

Already the dismalness of a level land comes over me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

There she sat, stranded in the dismalness, and knew no way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

I hate town, anyway, and a hospital is the limit for dismalness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

I sighed -- at the general dismalness of life, I suppose -- and resumed my Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

Apart from the general air of dismalness, the place was as I had left it the night before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland: Chapter 7] Reference

Page 26 the fault of dismalness, of tediousness - the witless and contagious coma of the evangelist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prejudices : first series,] Reference

To add to the dismalness of the situation the Germans began throwing the familiar magnesium lights overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference

Not even the dismalness of her unattractive room and desolate surroundings had power to drive the song from her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chautauqua Girls At Home] Reference

The general expression was of an odd painwearied dismalness, curiously warmed by the remnant of an unquenchable humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference

It must have been a dismal place; but the dismalness of it -- the strain of it -- was the measure of its indispensability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

I remember the cold, the threat of rain (or even snow), the chivvying wind - an unremitting dismalness blowing straight out.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Amy Winehouse to marry ex-husband in Caribbean island] Reference

Janet too; but every morning I rise, the dismalness of being alone here -- of being caged up alone -- eats more and more into my heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

Though I had been in and out of the room fifty times before I had never noticed till now the extreme dismalness and desolation of its appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsaken Inn A Novel] Reference

"There is one pleasure, I know, Maggie, that your deepest dismalness will never resist," said Lucy, beginning to speak as soon as she entered the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mill on the Floss] Reference

The house was one of those big black West-End houses, whose outward darkness and dismalness is in direct ratio to their inward brilliance and splendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference

A few fishermen in their oilskins seemed to emphasise the wetness and dismalness of England as they hurried down to the harbour in their great sea-boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dross] Reference

“There is one pleasure, I know, Maggie, that your deepest dismalness will never resist, ” said Lucy, beginning to speak as soon as she entered the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. First Impressions. Book VI—The Great Temptation] Reference

(The Independent, Jan. 23, 1897) Her coffin was beautifully decorated by colorful indoor flowers that contrasted greatly with the dismalness of winter and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohmynews International] Reference

It is not obvious that the dismalness of these places is down to consumerism or globalisation, which are names that we use when we can't put our finger on real causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Despite the horrid dismalness of the morning, hope had sent down from London trains full of people whose determination was to live and to see life in a grandiose manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

It was a chill and lowering morning, and a light snow which had fallen during the night whitened the great empty space and added to the general dismalness of its aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince and the Pauper] Reference

The place was saved from utter dismalness by a coal fire under the black marble mantelpiece, -- brilliantly reflected in a long mirror that hung between the two windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The song of the lark] Reference

I SUPPOSE there has never been an earnest worker, an enthusiast on any subject, in this changeful world, but has been a victim at some time to the dismalness of a reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chautauqua Girls At Home] Reference

Though these children are cheerful now, it is borne in on us by the atmosphere (as preserved for us by Morland's master-hand) that their life is a life of appalling dismalness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

O ye Husbands, and O ye Wives, if not for your own sakes then for your children's, lead a straight, clean, honorable life; any other sort of life leads to despicability, to dismalness, to disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints for Lovers] Reference

Celia thought with some dismalness of the time she should have to spend as bridesmaid at Lowick, while the curate had probably no pretty little children whom she could like, irrespective of principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

(or even snow), the chivvying wind - an unremitting dismalness blowing straight out of Thomas Hardy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The biggest mistake ever I made was when I fancied God's service was all gloom and dismalness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender] Reference

The place was saved from utter dismalness by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Song of the Lark] Reference

Hence the dismalness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference