drabness
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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
His enthusiasm, they conclude, “crashed into the drabness of the day’s cases.”
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2017
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
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