|səb|fəsk adjective
Etymology: Latin subfuscus brownish, dusky, from sub- near, almost + fuscus dark brown, blackish — more at sub- , dusk
1. : subfuscous
2. : having little of brightness or appeal : drab , dingy
the moment when the word Austerity was to take to itself a new subfusc and squalid twist of meaning — Osbert Sitwell
that gray, impoverished, subfusc community — Marguerite Steen