drear

With all this she was happier than she knew, and after Shelley's death she exclaims, with tragic conviction, "Alas! having lived day by day with one of the wisest, best, and most affectionate of spirits, how void, bare, and drear is the scene of life!"

Biography in the DNB 2010

Nothing lifts London like emerging from the drear winter clampdown into the freshness of early spring.

The Difficult Art of Inspiring Olympians Sam Leith 2011

Here in Providence, it's rainy and drear and chilly and windy.

"...moments before it spat its rain down on me." greygirlbeast 2010

Here in Providence, it's rainy and drear and chilly and windy.

"...moments before it spat its rain down on me." greygirlbeast 2010

Places on the eastern slope of the dramatically rising high Mexican Central Plain are subject to climate modifications brought on by the proximity of the Gulf of Mexico so in places such as Xalapa look for much cloudy coastal drizzle and drear.

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Places on the eastern slope of the dramatically rising high Mexican Central Plain are subject to climate modifications brought on by the proximity of the Gulf of Mexico so in places such as Xalapa look for much cloudy coastal drizzle and drear.

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Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair.

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Now the Hither Isles are flat and cold and swampy, with drear-drab light and all manner of slimy, creeping things, and piles of dirt and clouds of flying dust and sordid scraping and feeding and noise.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

So the woman went forth on the hills of God to do battle for the King, on that drear day in the land of the Heavy Laden, when the heathen raged and imagined a vain thing.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country.

John Feffer: Fela: Music Is Still the Weapon 2010