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dismal picture

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meanings of dismaland picture


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dismal
adjective
uk /ˈdɪz.məl/ us /ˈdɪz.məl/
sad and ...
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picture
noun
uk /ˈpɪk.tʃər/ us /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
a drawing, painting, ...
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Examples of dismal picture


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That dismalpicture has been ameliorated slightly by one undeniable success story—the youth opportunities programme.
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If we examine the performance of structural adjustment loans, a similar dismalpicture emerges.
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I hope that what we have put on record this morning is not a dismalpicture.
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To me that is a very dismalpicture.
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That is the dismalpicture—old buildings, low wages, over-dependence on a single industry and towns geographically slightly off the main stream.
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In the older housing sphere there is an equally dismalpicture.
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It is a dismalpicture of cuts and cancellations.
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Many of the economic indicators portray a dismalpicture at present.
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Inward investors are not painting the dismalpicture that we have just heard.
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I have taken a lot of trouble to look out some figures which do not seem to bear, out the somewhat dismalpicture he presented.
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It is indeed a dismalpicture.
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It is a gloomy and dismalpicture.
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London presents a dismalpicture—it is unplanned, unco-ordinated and unpleasant.
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I am delighted to hear that in some parts of the country the same somewhat dismalpicture is not apparent—as it is in too many other areas.
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To say the least, the report paints an extremely dismalpicture, suggesting that drug use was a significant problem and that prisoners did not receive proper support and treatment.
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It is a dismalpicture.
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Paragraphs 3.66 to 3.70 give a dismalpicture of the inadequacies to be found in this area of prison life, inadequacies of which most people are quite unaware.
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The reporter was unable to find out classified information, and instead invented maintenance records of the fleet that painted a dismalpicture.
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Sectoral analysis again exhibits a dismalpicture.
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I hope we shall have an end of this painting of dismal pictures.
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