"dismal note" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a negative situation or feeling, where a sense of gloom or sadness is present. For example, "The conference ended on a dismal note as nobody was happy with the outcome."
With the market seemingly ending the week on a dismal note, one exception is car insurer Admiral.
Milan's league campaign ended on an appropriately dismal note as they lost 3-1 at home to Roma, with Stephan El Shaarawy among the visitors' goalscorers.
Having been driven, in part, by a desire to redeem the name and reputation of his father, who was censured by the Senate over the misuse of campaign money, will Mr. Dodd leave on a similarly dismal note?
Scott Bowman, a UK economist at Capital Economics, said the UK had ended the year "on a dismal note", but was more optimistic about the impact of sterling on exports.
From September 2002: "I had made wrong turns for every body I did, there were two that I started and had abandoned or that I put aside" and, again, "GT, where are you going?" Then in February of the following year there is this dismal note: "All of January could not write a word What is going wrong?
A seesaw battle between creationists and their opponents in Texas ended this afternoon on a dismal note for scientists and educators.
Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital, described the results as "dismal" and noted the bank was ditching targets previously set to measure returns to shareholders.
In October, IDC published a pretty dismal report noting what it deemed "significant" declines with total shipments dropping 51.6percentt year-over-year.
In his most recent Fed watch piece, for instance, Tim Duy says, of the dismal employment numbers, "Note also that these numbers are appearing closer to the beginning of the recession than at the end.
A more dismal view would note that the increased funding is less than half the annual amounts the NHS has been getting since 2000, and falls short of Derek Wanless's recommendations to a previous chancellor in 2002.
Writing about the paper Friday at the Moody's Analytics blog Dismal Scientist, Adam Ozimek noted that this effect could be considered a form of "demographic hysteresis".
