dismal record

collocation in English

meaningsofdismalandrecord

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dismal
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪz.məl/us
/ˈdɪz.məl/
sad and ...
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record
noun
uk
/ˈrek.ɔːd/us
/ˈrek.ɚd/
a piece of information or a description of an event that is written on paper or stored on ...
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(Definition ofdismalandrecordfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is adismalrecord.
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It is adismalrecord.
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We have adismalrecordof investment.
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He referred to what he described as mydismalrecord.
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What is the reason for thisdismalrecord?
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It is not merely theirdismalrecordof failure.
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They have adismalrecordin almost every field, including this.
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What adismalrecordis that of our shipping legislation of the past few years.
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It is adismalrecordof bad government, and it will not do.
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Two marine nature reserves in 14 years is adismalrecord.
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We have a similardismalrecordon the recycling of textiles, oils, plastics and batteries.
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Any attempt to improve on hisdismalrecord, they describe as dogmatism.
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There was adismalrecordof economic growth in the five years leading up to 1970.
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That is the mostdismalrecordof growth over any four years since the war.
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There is one bright star in the whole of thisdismalrecord.
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Does he agree that only eight out of 76 contracts awarded in 18 months is adismalrecord?
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I would not be able to participate in the process at all, with mydismalrecordin mathematics and science.
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My right honourable friend was saying that this was a group which had a ratherdismalrecordof absence through sickness.
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In a sector where a party has such adismalrecord, one would have thought that common decency demanded a period of silence.
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Thatdismalrecordmust be halted at once if we are to be saved the ignominy and suffering of national bankruptcy.
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The increased price of imports and the worsening terms of trade are one factor, though only one, in thedismalrecord.
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Is it reasonable to expect the company to pour new investment money into this country having regard to thedismalrecordof the past?
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No one can deny, after listening to this week'sdismalrecordof our economic position, that we are not in difficulties.
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As we prepare for a new pensions settlement and one powerful regulator for all financial services, it is essential that we learn the lessons of thisdismalrecord.
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His point is exactly correct: we had adismalrecordin the past and although we are beginning to improve, we still have a long way to go.
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