drear
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The design scheme of the production can be summed up as fluorescent drear, presumably to convey the grimness of Jamie’s school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
I imagined the Lonely Mountains isolated by their own vastness and strangeness, their slow, cold hearts filled with a drear and incurable loneliness.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2018
In the gusty drear of the morning and then the breezy sunshine of midday amid the rude crosswinds near the Irish Sea, they shot their 65s.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2017
Hope’s mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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