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adjective

Dreary adj. (compar. drearier; superl. dreariest)

Sorrowful; distressful. (Obs.) " Dreary shrieks."

Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy. " Dreary shades." "The dreary ground." "Full many a dreary anxious hour." "Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity."

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... that he had treated her so badly while she had been all devotion to him. The love of a woman is not always governed by a sense of gratefulness. There are women whose hearts are like the grape, and give out their best juices to him who tramples on them. If anything is certain in all the coarse and dreary story of that Court, it is that Queen Caroline adored her husband—that she was too fond ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... and ogles; or repose, simpering at each other, under an arbour of pea-green crockery; or piping to pretty flocks that have just been washed with the best Naples in a stream of Bergamot. Gay's gay plan seems to me far pleasanter than that of Philips—his rival and Pope's—a serious and dreary idyllic Cockney; not that Gay's "Bumkinets and Hobnelias" are a whit more natural than the would-be serious characters of the other posture-master; but the quality of this true humourist was to laugh and make laugh, though always with a secret kindness and tenderness, ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... malady, leaves numerous consequences in its train, extending, who shall say, how far into the future? The first symptom of these consequences was a correspondence, and, as there is no reading more dreary than a series of letters, merely their substance is given here. When Jennie was herself again, she wrote a long letter to the Princess von Steinheimer, detailing the particulars of her impersonation, and begging ...

— Jennie Baxter, Journalist • Robert Barr

... that we shall not be glad to see you, but the weather is dreary and the distance long: and if you were to come, we might not be able to meet you and to speak to you with calmness. In that case you would receive a melancholy impression which I should like to spare you. Perhaps it would be better for you and less selfish ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

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