dreary in the PONS Dictionary

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The play's success brought the word dreary into common use.
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Drunkenness was rife among the labourers in a dreary existence with too little to do.
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She was very often motherless, sometimes fatherless, and sometimes an orphan confined to a dreary asylum.
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It is one of my interests in this dreary hole.
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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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All the dreary, uninteresting routine drops from you suddenly, your chains fall about your feet...
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Everywhere we met with th same productions, and the same dreary landscape.
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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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This is especially so in the winter months, when it is typically interminably grey and dreary.
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After unexpectedly becoming friends with a neighboring girl, she lets some pleasure into her dreary life.
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