adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dreary weather
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Cooking for one person can be a dreary business, as many elderly people find.
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I was living in a dreary apartment in a run-down part of town.
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Laurie gazed out over a dreary landscape of factories and parking lots.
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This room is so dreary . How can we brighten it up?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the dreary new settlements revivalist contests also provided entertainment.
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It can be the dreary horror of ribbon development.
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It was all dreary , dreary, just as he had anticipated.
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She might under some circumstances be submissive, like these dreary girls you see padding along in the moccasin tracks of hippies.
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The sight of her filled Liz with a subdued and dreary panic.
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There was George - dull, dreary George - sprawled full-length on the settee, his nose deep in a book as usual.
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They kissed her and all had another glass of fizz before Charles started the dreary journey back to Willesden on the Underground.