drabness

Example Sentences

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The strict realism runs the risk of drabness; the novel’s title, for instance, is so forgettable that I have had to look it up three times in the writing of this review.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“With her higher-than-high hemlines, colorful tights and masculine tailored trousers, she helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new attitude to dressing.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

To stay sane, she releases her pent-up frustration at her gigs, where her furious guitar playing, powerful vocals and introspective songwriting torch the everyday drabness of her life with a Dionysian flame.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Or so we have been taught: that lushness equals splendor, that when a blossom wilts and fails, the plant that bore it is finished, returned to drabness, spent of purpose.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2019

Michael enjoyed Mr. Neech's eccentricities after the drabness of the Special.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton