dreary

IPA: drˈɪri

adjective

Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.

Examples of "dreary" in Sentences

The ghettos were a very dreary place.
Now the American gay people are so dreary.
In the series, Chino is depicted as a dreary slum.
It was a dreary time in the storied program's history.
It is a top class design years ahead of the dreary replacement.
"It is what I call a dreary, dismal-looking town," said Miles to
The sports statement at the bottom is fairly dreary and unqualified.
Shotts was then a dreary moorland place on the Great Road of the Shire.
The Raven was a daark and dreary poem that was written in Febuary, 1845.
This will be dreary to read and also the scope of URL1 will be ambiguous.
It is apologetic's, of the dreary nationalist genre, masquerading as history.
It was the reward he had promised her for what he called her dreary, mechanical job of copying and copying.
Her use of the word "dreary" is a clever utilization of a subjective adjective (and a very Wordsworthian one).
All things considered, it could be worse, but all of the grey and the dreary is sort of sapping my motivation.
After a few months in dreary England, Alfred Tayler went to the Empire Exhibition and was seduced by the thought of farming in Southern Rhodesia.
When we were packing up to leave last week I had occasion to re-fondle the Fyberspates yarn in dreary olive green which I had laid out to take to Alyth to donate to charity.
The restaurant and night-life industry may be buzzing downtown, but some of the biggest fireworks take place in dreary meeting rooms where tempers flare, tears are shed and the back and forth can stretch on for up to eight hours.
He called to tell me he had decided that he would rather begin his stay at the clinic in Switzerland and attend the music conservatory during the holidays than remain at the Clairborne mansion for what he called another dreary Christmas.

dreary

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