The barren landscape looks 'dismal' [='bleak, desolate'] in winter.
The show was a 'dismal' failure.
The team's record is 'dismal'.
(..) I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek and my fell of hair would, at a dismal treatise, rouse and stir as life were in't. I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, (..)2015 Macbeth