offering little or no hope
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freq. cnt.: 4
freq. cnt.: 2
freq. cnt.: 2
sample sentences
"the future looked black"
"prospects were bleak"
"Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge
"took a dim view of things"
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