gloomily

Example Sentences

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"I feel that we are disastrously losing this game. And I think it's going to get worse," David added gloomily.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

More gloomily, the holiday was observed against a backdrop of continued fighting.

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

But if even a few of the arms wind up on the black market instead of the battlefield, a Ukrainian lawmaker gloomily predicted, “we’re done.”

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

Within emotional parameters that other actors might have found gloomily constricting, Nighy coaxes forth a tour de force of understatement, suffused with an almost musical melancholy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

“I suppose there’s always Moaning Myrtle,” he said gloomily, referring to the ghost who haunted the girls’ toilets on the second floor.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling