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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismalness
Noun
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The story is a satire that follows a long flight between England and Australia, where passengers are forced to deal with boredom when the entertainment system fails.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025 -
During her widowhood, in the early 1000s, out of grief or boredom, Lady Murasaki began writing The Tale of Genji in Japanese.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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Cramer also suggested that investors have tariff ennui because the U.S. has more major trade deals to settle — namely with China, Canada and Mexico — so negotiations are likely to continue for months.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
28 July 2025
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For all those twists and turns, the sentiments in Dutch Interior’s lyrics often have more of a cohesive feeling, chock full of western ennui and religious iconography.—
Leah Lu,
Rolling Stone,
15 July 2025
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The original poster responded with honesty and regret.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Pickaxe weighed down with regrets of the dead and still alive alike.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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Google's new tool lets users search for flight options using natural language, rather than having to go through the tedium of searching for an endless combination of dates and destinations to find a good deal.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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GitHub's Copilot reduces the tedium of writing boilerplate functions by autocompleting repetitive code patterns.—
Gabriel Snyder,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Along with the spread of a respiratory infection and rainwater flooding their tents, the circumstances have fueled a feeling of desperation among detainees, the attorneys wrote in a court filing.—
David Fischer,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2025
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Significance is met with distress, exuberance bleeds into impatience, longing is blurred with desperation.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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There were, however, occasional moments of despair rather than delight.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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Not all rabbis spoke from the same ideological place, but a common thread was their effort to assert Jewish moral vocabulary in a moment of despair.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Dismalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismalness. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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