dreary

It was just after 5 o’clock in the morning on a dreary day, and fortunately, no ships were nearby.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

On a dreary autumn day in 2022, Sarah Perry and her husband, Robert, were waiting for David, Robert’s father, at a department store in Norwich, England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

If the future of filmmaking really is in the hands of those who can best define this dreary period of life, “It Ends” meets that challenge with an optimistic, tenacious flair movies have been missing.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

He managed his way through all of that, even when his team were putting in dreary performances.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

The months subsequent were an endless dreary battle of paperwork, full of stalemates, fought in trenches.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Academics preferred the 20th century’s drearier strains of pessimistic poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Allen closed his essay emphasizing the significance of Keaton’s death: “A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a world that does not. Hence it’s a drearier world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

He added that the world was now a "drearier" place without her in it.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Sure, everyone is wearing masks, and social distancing rules make dining hall dinners a little drearier, but there is at least the promise of the ever elusive Covid bubble.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2021

If Courtney and Jupiter take notice of my drearier demeanor post-field-trip-and-photo-discovery, neither lets on.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

And as an already sleep deprived, anxiety attack-prone person facing the darkest, dreariest season of the year, I figured it was worth a shot to try to nourish my way to a better attitude.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

“Amidst this dreariest of settings, Miss Rowland demonstrated that she is above all an artist.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

"The problem with Pixar's latest feature isn't just that it's the animation house's dullest, dreariest, most spiritually empty to date. It's that it fails even on its own painstakingly contrived open-goal terms."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022

After losing his bid for speaker, De León was stripped of his Appropriations chairmanship and relegated to one of the dreariest offices in the state Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2022

Turner knew from the map there were another seven miles, and once they were on the move again, they were the hardest, the dreariest they had walked that day.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan