drabness
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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
Instead, brown, gray, beige and white are dominant, an achromatic palette whose gloomy drabness is only relieved by the surprisingly wide variety of neutrals the artist employs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Reg and Babs aren’t hateful, exactly, but their pathetic drabness make a case that the dress is getting the raw end of the deal.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019
And the danger is even greater in “A House Among the Trees,” which gives up a lot of white space to that caretaker, although she never shakes off the drabness of her conception.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2017
There was a weary sort of patience, a disillusioned concession to the drabness of married life.
From Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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