| 1 | Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom. | |
| 2 | But they are particularly common in the dismal science. | |
| 3 | Black humor is morbid or unhealthy and gloomy humor. | |
| 4 | There never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented! | |
| 5 | Conventional economics uses money as a proxy for utility - the dismal way in which the discipline talks about happiness. |