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

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 New York Knicks spent the first two decades of this 21st century being as dreary and miserable a franchise as there was in basketball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

On dreary summer evenings, Roz and Brightbill would curl up together, just the two of them, and listen to the rain pattering on the roof of the Nest.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Here’s another of those: a slower and drearier version of the Hollies hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

But they rarely come drearier and more overwritten than Theresa Rebeck’s “Mad House,” which had its world premiere in the West End this summer.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

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

"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

But that is surely the dreariest, meanest, most pinched way to put it.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020

‘That’ll be a lot more fun than fiddling around with figures. I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth.’

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl