drab
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The backdrops are always drab; concrete floors and metal doors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
It was July 2015, and Sherman, then a top Obama administration official at the State Department, had just stepped up to a lectern in a drab conference room.
From Slate • May 1, 2026
“We cherish pleasure,” the authors write unabashedly, “and believe a politics without it will be unattractive, drab, listless, and doomed to failure.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
One manufacturer’s idea of khaki or olive drab, for example, might not match another’s—a serious problem when thousands of yards of uniform fabric had to be dyed the same shade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The room was drab in the fresh, hot morning sun, and a pair of silk stockings hung limp and withered from the cord of the windowshade.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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