dreary

It's a hobby that started six years ago, when he went to Shetland to see the northern lights - though the weather was so dreary he "didn't see anything".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

A period of dreary, windy, cool weather is settling across Southern California this week, as a cold system from the Pacific Northwest moves south.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

The room was an old, damp lecture hall buried in the innards of the college; it resembled a dreary accountant’s chamber in a Dickens novel.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is a drearier and less-plausible dream than Mr. Lindsey admits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we got the drearier, very human awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney — deceitful, irrational and sometimes plain old mean.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

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

It might be the dreariest month of the year, but there are at least two things going for February: It’s short, and it’s not January.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

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 result is a celebratory starter that wakes up the palate and brightens the dreariest winter day — but, of course, our grannies already knew that.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 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

‘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