Translations for „drably“ in the English » German Dictionary

drab·ly [ˈdræbli] ADV

drably

trist form

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English

This is a stark post-industrial landscape, yet infinitely varied and drably beautiful.

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Once the battle begins don't take your eyes off the fracas to read the stiff and drably written mission updates.

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The airport carpet sings out its inviolable song, a sign of man's refusal to go drably into that dark night of international travel.

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West's decision to stage the "public visitation" at a chain store is, in an un-showy way, inspired -- a detail that's crushing to the exact degree that it's so drably pedestrian.

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But what was once drably predictable reality (with limited refrigeration, fresh food didn't move far from the place of its birth) is now the very pinnacle of indulgent, high-end eating.

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With his sagging grey tracksuit and drably inarticulate manner, he doesn't look a promising subject.

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The colors are brighter, the fashion (for the men, at least) drably pedestrian, the hair all over the place and virtually every longtime character showing a certain wear.

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The exterior may be drably forgettable.

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Heroine is drably monotonous, its insights are shallow, most of the characters are caricatures and the lines that they speak border on the corny, if not on the outright ridiculous.

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