dismal

On an afternoon that stretched Rangers' dismal start to the season, three banners displayed across a section of the Ibrox support made their feelings clear.

If the dismal past performance of mutual funds hadn’t already convinced you of how difficult it is to beat the stock market, the market-lagging performance of U.S. college and university endowments should be enough.

The SNP's critics point to what they see as a dismal domestic record, on the NHS, housing and the number of deaths among drug addicts, for instance.

“We also still dismayed by basic operational gaps, high unit-closure rates, never-ending international restructuring and dismal earnings results,” he continued, adding: “We remain Neutral.”

That made sense because growth in the first quarter was dismal and the effective tariff rate was expected to exceed 20% this year.