dreary
adjective
causing sadness or gloom.
drearisome
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a word derived from
dreary.
Example Sentences
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He offered me his hand, and we were out of sight of all that wearisome, drearisome, uncompanionable company with whom, for eight long weeks at least, we had been dragging our rough way.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
For reply the German led off in a drearisome minor folk-tune, Rangely and Bently improvising their parts with some skill, albeit not always with perfect harmony.
From The Pagans by Arlo Bates
While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, The worms drew back into the mounds, The glebe cow drooled.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
