grabber
Example Sentences
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Drifting down a corridor at her German school, a world that looks even drabber and uglier after the wonders she’s seen, this Priscilla seems lost in a dream, the most private of reveries.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023
Unfortunately, the visuals suffer from many scratches and dirt specks popping up on the screen, and the second film has too much soft focus and a much drabber color palette.
From Washington Times • Apr. 30, 2022
Take away one of those elements, and the scene gets a little drabber.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2020
In its place is a drabber appraisal of the tournament by the numbers.
From Time • Apr. 19, 2013
Ingeborg herself when she came running out of the parlour to him into the concentrated cabbage of the corridor seemed less shining, drabber than before.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
