dreary

It's a hobby that started six years ago, when he went to Shetland to see the northern lights - though the weather was so dreary he "didn't see anything".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

He managed his way through all of that, even when his team were putting in dreary performances.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

A period of dreary, windy, cool weather is settling across Southern California this week, as a cold system from the Pacific Northwest moves south.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Wait, these aren’t the dreary, soul-sucking 76ers America was promised!

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

After Emily Sue left, I went upstairs and hung my dreary new suit in my closet.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Here’s another of those: a slower and drearier version of the Hollies hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Academics preferred the 20th century’s drearier strains of pessimistic poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

He added that the world was now a "drearier" place without her in it.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we got the drearier, very human awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

If Courtney and Jupiter take notice of my drearier demeanor post-field-trip-and-photo-discovery, neither lets on.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

It might be the dreariest month of the year, but there are at least two things going for February: It’s short, and it’s not January.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

And as an already sleep deprived, anxiety attack-prone person facing the darkest, dreariest season of the year, I figured it was worth a shot to try to nourish my way to a better attitude.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

"The problem with Pixar's latest feature isn't just that it's the animation house's dullest, dreariest, most spiritually empty to date. It's that it fails even on its own painstakingly contrived open-goal terms."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022

After losing his bid for speaker, De León was stripped of his Appropriations chairmanship and relegated to one of the dreariest offices in the state Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2022

Turner knew from the map there were another seven miles, and once they were on the move again, they were the hardest, the dreariest they had walked that day.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan