a blue day.
a dark gloomy day.
a disconsolate winter landscape.
a lamentable decision.
a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick.
a sorry excuse.
a sorry horse.
a sorry state of affairs.
a week of rainy depressing weather.
felt regretful over his vanished youth.
grim rainy weather.
he felt bad about breaking the vase.
her clothes were in sad shape.
my finances were in a deplorable state.
regretful over mistakes she had made.
the car was a no-good piece of junk.
the dark days of the war.
the first dismal dispiriting days of November.