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[ adjective ] depressing in character or appearance
Examples "drove through dingy streets" "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens "drab old buildings" "a dreary mining town" "gloomy tenements" "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)At any cost , he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Synonyms Examples "her drab personality" "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas" "a series of dreary dinner parties" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion , sedulously fostered by all_too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of . Related terms |
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