drear

Example Sentences

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The design scheme of the production can be summed up as fluorescent drear, presumably to convey the grimness of Jamie’s school.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Walters plays a woman who presides over a world, not of exciting erotica, but absurdly tacky and dull kitchen-sink drear.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2020

In the gusty drear of the morning and then the breezy sunshine of midday amid the rude crosswinds near the Irish Sea, they shot their 65s.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2017

Hope’s mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

She was still no more than a girl, and still waiting for that plateau of happiness, that hand of a precious Lord who, when her way grew drear, would always linger near.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison