drabness
Example Sentences
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The strict realism runs the risk of drabness; the novel’s title, for instance, is so forgettable that I have had to look it up three times in the writing of this review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
“With her higher-than-high hemlines, colorful tights and masculine tailored trousers, she helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new attitude to dressing.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
To stay sane, she releases her pent-up frustration at her gigs, where her furious guitar playing, powerful vocals and introspective songwriting torch the everyday drabness of her life with a Dionysian flame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
Set in the everyday drabness of Bucharest or other, even less glamorous Romanian cities, they turn the grievances, frustrations and hopes of ordinary people into deadpan philosophical case studies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
Here and there, breaking the monotony of dark house-fronts, were little isolated shops, which gave a touch of colour to the drabness.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 by Various
