The phrase "a dismal side" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or bleak aspect of a situation, topic, or subject matter.
Example: "While the project had many positive outcomes, there was also a dismal side that we couldn't ignore, including the budget overruns."
Alternatives: "a bleak aspect" or "a grim facet".
A dismal side effect of Ballet Theater's programming is that the audience is encouraged to pick favorites.
The tying goal came in the seventieth minute, from striker Jermaine Defoe, who has managed to score fifteen goals this season an impressive tally coming from such a dismal side.
The tying goal came in the seventieth minute, from striker Jermaine Defoe, who has managed to score fifteen goals this season — an impressive tally coming from such a dismal side.
In the quarter-finals they beat a dismal France side 2-0.
They then cruised through their quarter-final clash against a dismal French side last Saturday, winning 2-0.
A comfortable win over a dismal Leicester side on Saturday - only the second time Coventry have won matches back to back all season - showed, however, that City are the one team of the bottom four who are finding form and piled the pressure on Middlesbrough, the side one point ahead of them, to beat Sunderland at the Riverside Stadium tonight.
The French winger Vincent Clerc scored an injury-time try to rescue a bonus point, for losing by fewer than eight points, as the scrum-half, Dimitri Yachvili, slotted three penalties for a dismal France side who were outplayed in the second half.
FKK, or Freikörperkultur, or liberal-body-culture was kind of insanely popular on the dismal side of the Iron Curtain.
Despite impressing in a dismal Aston Villa side, scoring 42 league goals in four seasons, Benteke looked out of place for large parts of his debut season at Anfield and managed only 10 goals in 43 appearances in all competitions.
Everton's resounding 5-2 defeat in Kiev ends a dismal month for English sides in Europe, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham also knocked out.
The Arsenal manager is facing increasing pressure to stand down at the end of a dismal season in which his side have slumped to sixth place in the Premier League, 33 points behind the leaders Manchester City.
