drear
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The day is drear, the music ominous — and with good reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Walters plays a woman who presides over a world, not of exciting erotica, but absurdly tacky and dull kitchen-sink drear.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2020
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
Jon had seen an abandoned hold-fast once, a drear place where nothing moved but the wind and the stones kept silent about whatever people had lived there.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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