umbrous

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Van Gogh’s muscular stabs and dense ponds of paint were the antidote to academic art, requiring no need for visual tutorials: a rush of radiance for the masses toiling in their umbrous slog.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Harris, a master of umbrous what-ifs, is at his best here.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned.

From Time Magazine Archive

The winter pelage is soft, dull in color, and gives the specimen a grayish or an umbrous appearance.

From Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming by White, John A.