dismalness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismalness
Noun
  • For the students, the evacuations at first carry an air of palpable panic, even a perverse frisson of adventure, though with frequent repetition, mortal danger gets blunted into exasperated boredom.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Blow Job, Sleep, Empire: with help from the Jonas Mekas propaganda wheel, these shifted the definition of beauty in the popular US lexicon: a filmed beauty, a gay beauty, a beauty of an intimate boredom.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The new WalletHub survey finds growing ennui among bank customers.
    Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The film, despite grossing just under $5 million in the U.S. against a $9 million budget, later became of a cult classic that was synonymous with the melancholic realization that teenage longing and ennui can extend into adulthood.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Alex Brown has no regrets about his actions on Love Is Blind.
    Joelle Goldstein, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Much of Ross’s arc here entails him nursing regret over his estrangement from Betty (Liv Tyler), his daughter—her first appearance since The Incredible Hulk, 17 years ago.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Needless to say, these navies have spent decades and millions of dollars studying the effects of this isolation with an eye to keeping the crews at peak efficiency and mental health in an environment that combines tedium and great stress.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The educational tedium of Epcot was in a way the most agonizing: the six-minute Journey into Imagination, the fifteen-minute Spaceship Earth, the twenty-minute Living with the Land, and especially Ellen’s Energy Adventure, a forty-five-minute ordeal starring Ellen Degeneres and Bill Nye.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • When guests arrive in town with a plan that will uproot Junie’s life, her act of desperation wakes Minnie’s spirit from the grave, also unveiling horrifying secrets about Bellereine.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Their swollen limbs, skeletal frames, and mewling cries of desperation are what keep me awake at night.
    Jennifer Furin, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This is really just, across America, giving folks that maybe feel a lot of despair across this first month an outlet to feel heard and understood and comforted by like-minded individuals.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Their opulent investment in wages for Lorenzo Insigne has royally backfired, costing Bill Manning his job last summer and digging the Reds into a deep pit of despair for the past couple of years.
    Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Dismalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismalness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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