dreary in the PONS Dictionary

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The play's success brought the word dreary into common use.
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Creative residents proceeded to put their own stamp on the building and covered the dreary grey concrete surfaces in graffiti.
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A young woman lives unhappily with her embittered parents in an isolated rural home until an escaped convict changes her dreary existence.
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It is here that the dreary suspicion of allegory crosses the reader's mind.
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Croft had found the existing dramatic society rather dreary, and occupied mainly by boys who were already interested in acting.
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It is one of my interests in this dreary hole.
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The director visits a deserted beach on a dreary day.
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The physical structure of these institutions are themselves oppressive, resembling prisons in many ways, yet even more dreary.
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This is especially so in the winter months, when it is typically interminably grey and dreary.
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These houses were, unusually, semi-detached and arranged in a chequerboard layout, very much in contrast to the dreary terraces that were then the standard.
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