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dreary <-ier, -iest> [ˈdrɪri, Brit ˈdrɪəri] ADJ

dreary day

dreary weather

sombrio(-a)

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Torn from all they loved on earth and banished with dishonoured nam to the dreary regions outside. en.wikipedia.org

During the long dry season large extents of red soil with hardly any trees lend the country a scorched and dreary appearance. en.wikipedia.org

The physical structure of these institutions are themselves oppressive, resembling prisons in many ways, yet even more dreary. en.wikipedia.org

The play's success brought the word dreary into common use. en.wikipedia.org

This strange work was at times sensual and sinister, skronky and soulful, dreary and delirious; its tunes are solid, but lacked many singalong hooks. en.wikipedia.org

But now the world is dreary, and he must leave, in winter, in the dead of night, finding his own way in the trackless snow. en.wikipedia.org

A young woman lives unhappily with her embittered parents in an isolated rural home until an escaped convict changes her dreary existence. en.wikipedia.org

She was very often motherless, sometimes fatherless, and sometimes an orphan confined to a dreary asylum. en.wikipedia.org

After unexpectedly becoming friends with a neighboring girl, she lets some pleasure into her dreary life. en.wikipedia.org

The director visits a deserted beach on a dreary day. en.wikipedia.org

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