dreary

What’s tiresome is that in learning about them we have to sit through a one-sided lecture of the usual dreary sort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

We must beware the dreary cynics who would have us believe it isn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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

They sat through whole dreary afternoons, corseted and alone.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Allen closed his essay emphasizing the significance of Keaton’s death: “A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a world that does not. Hence it’s a drearier world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

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

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Once the game is afoot, though, “The Menu’s” soufflé starts to sag, with the plot becoming drearier in direct proportion to the body-horror jump scares.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 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

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 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

That Sunday turned out to be the dreariest one on record.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt