Example Sentences:

Ramayana: Khara-Dushana’s attack on Rama turned out to be a dismal failure – every one of the attackers was wiped out.

Mahabharata: Duryodhana’s attempt to humiliate the exiled Pandavas turned out to be a dismal embarrassment; he ended up being humiliated instead, for he was first arrested by the Gandhavas and then released by the Pandavas.

Bhagavad-gita: Death is one of the four major problems of material existence because everyone who is born has to die – the death rate can be said to be a dismal one hundred percent.