Definitions
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- adverb In a
drab manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a drab manner
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Examples
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Like a sun-drenched marigold in a field of late autumn leaves, Wolfe usually stood out among a faculty of rather drably dressed colleagues.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Of Teachers and History: A Brooklyn Memoir Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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Like a sun-drenched marigold in a field of late autumn leaves, Wolfe usually stood out among a faculty of rather drably dressed colleagues.
Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Of Teachers and History: A Brooklyn Memoir Virginia Sanchez-Korrol 2011
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Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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Bram's taste isn't for the obvious, and the images he's curated rarely display traditionally seductive or eye-catching gimmickry; landscapes are drably colored, ordinary people are shown in unembellished states of ordinariness.
Larissa Archer: No Gimmicks at Fraction Magazine Group Show Larissa Archer 2011
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Fat, ugly, repressed and drably dressed Charlotte, as played by Bette Davis in Now, Voyager, helped shape the image of the spinster for a generation.
Another Year, same old witch-hunt David Cox 2010
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Today the UN investigators live and work in 50 drably furnished rooms spread out over the five floors of the Monteverde.
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An exception to this pattern of bright liberal-dumb conservative was Lucas Alamán, a conspicuously intellectual defender of the status quo who stood out like a bird of brilliant plumage among a host of drably feathered Bishops, hacienda owners and (except for their uniforms) Generals.
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But the would-be deity was also a shrewd faker, a sly self-inventor – he was born, a little too drably for his own taste, as Edward Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames – and a busy self-promoter.
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Now everything is even more drably gray than normal. bnitro
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - ELR delayed one earth week… 2008
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