dreariness

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Dreariness and despair were stifling her; she longed to leave off smiling, to leap up and cry out, "I am sick of you," and then jump out and swim to the bank.

From The Party by Garnett, Constance

The Dreariness of One Line of Conduct We have lots of ways of expressing that a man is in a "rut" without ever giving the real reason of our adverse criticisms.

From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by King, Richard

Dreariness, flimsiness, bad taste reduced to mathematical completeness is what the inside offers to the eye, if it remains yet what it always has been.

From The Gilded Age, Part 3. by Warner, Charles Dudley

Dreariness, wreck, and desolation were on every side; and it seemed to Salvé that it was only a reflection of his own life.

From The Pilot and his Wife by Lie, Jonas Lauritz Idemil

Dreariness filled the weeks with dismal, sunless skies and a clinging moisture that knew no wholesome tonic of keen frosts.

From The Man Whom the Trees Loved by Blackwood, Algernon