drab
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Emma Garman’s “The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, a postwar era so drab that even the weather seems exhausted.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
It was July 2015, and Sherman, then a top Obama administration official at the State Department, had just stepped up to a lectern in a drab conference room.
From Slate • May 1, 2026
He suffers from rheumatism and would like nothing more than to “heal” on a beach in Cuba—still the ideal of paradise for those who grew up in drab old communist Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Even then, though, I won’t like James Whitaker’s cinematography, which goes for a deliberate ugliness but just looks dishwater drab.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
I sullenly counted my money as I left the cobbler’s shop: three jots and a drab.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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