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

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

His enthusiasm, they conclude, “crashed into the drabness of the day’s cases.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2017

Her body gleamed pinkly, in contrast to the pallid drabness of the half-dead automatons, and she held her head proudly erect.

From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur