[ adv ] in a cheerless manner <adv.all> 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
Drearily \Drear"i*ly\, adv. Gloomily; dismally.
The script, adapted from Dave Stevens's graphic novel by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, is drearily earnest, without a single original wrinkle in the timeless battle of good against evil.
Mr. Gill believes neither story and describes her as a harridan who pestered and tried to bully her son as long as she lived and, worse, as "ambitious, half-mad, sexually cold and drearily self-righteous."