"triste" in English

Yet even this dismal economic justification for culling on such a scale does not stand up.

The dismal upshot of this civil war is millions of refugees and total deaths estimated at over a million.

They have not understood a thing, for teaching someone a lesson is a dismal way of educating them and one that has never worked.

Every day we hear voices which want to leave Africa to its miserable fate of self-destruction.

a miserable, cloudy day

I think we have delivered a miserable example of the way in which the European Parliament goes about its legislative work: three hours of bartering with amendments across the floor of the House.

I hope that at the EU-US Summit on 20 June, the Council will prove this sombre scenario wrong.

The words of Qoheleth in Ecclesiastes—providing a lengthy description of physical decline and death in symbolical images—paint a sombre picture of old age.

I wish to record my support for this report, which contains a sombre assessment of the economic situation facing us and seeks to prioritise responses to that situation.

Let us remind ourselves of the sorrowful period of the Crusades, the Inquisition or the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants.

And so he arose, if I may so speak, sorrowful and joyful, and joy and grief were in him alternately.

I think it's a bit upsetting to see so many countries running away from giving their people an opportunity'.

I may paint a gloomy picture, but we do have reason for hope.

The gloomy facts speak for themselves and leave no room for doubt, let alone complacency.

These gloomy statistics show us clearly that we must do everything we can to combat smoking.