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The phrase "a rather dismal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is bleak, gloomy, or disappointing in nature.
Example: "The weather forecast predicts a rather dismal week ahead, with rain and overcast skies."
Alternatives: "a quite bleak" or "a rather gloomy".
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It is all immensely reassuring, in a rather dismal manner.
He went on to publish a rather dismal series of potboilers on crime and the occult.
But we see a rather dismal time ahead, with hyper-efficiency, etc.
And might prompt the local media plurality debate to move on from a rather dismal management of market exit to the promotion of market entry".
Despite a rather dismal set of new releases in the first week of September this year, the month is tracking strongly ahead of the same period in 2014.
While overall voter turnout in Trenton was a rather dismal 14percentt, it was 78percentt among the roughly 2,800 people in the Six Degrees Project.
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Not insignificant: American women are attempting to do it all in a country with rather dismal structural support for working mothers, in terms of time off after childbirth or subsidized day care.
Afterward I sped home for a long nap, and put the rather dismal experience out of my head until my scores arrived in the mail this week.
And mere days after The Beaver's rather dismal opening weekend, a new Killen-created series, Awake, starring Jason Isaacs as a man living two separate realities, was commissioned by US network NBC.
Leaving aside one rather dismal naked pagan dance, a more chaste history of popular music can hardly be imagined.
However, from the side lines the whole spectacle is rather dismal - far too much a case of 'They Checkmate Grandmasters.
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