Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dismally \Dis"mal*ly\, adv.
   In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

Source : WordNet®

dismally
     adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a
            dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French,
            German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee
            drank together to the peace of the future" [syn: {drearily}]
     2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
        behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
        succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
        failed" [syn: {dreadfully}]