dreary
Example Sentences
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On a serious note, this column promised news of progress amid D.C.’s dreary winter of disappointing local governance.
On the dreary fall day the first snow fell in Toronto, for example, it was 78 degrees and sunny in the Mexican capital.
From Los Angeles Times
Every night we stay in the same dreary kind of motel off the highway, with a TV bolted to the wall and multiple locks on the door.
From Literature
Academics preferred the 20th century’s drearier strains of pessimistic poetry.
Tolkien, in part for the reprieve they offer from the dreary and mundane.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
