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  • adjective comparative form of dreary: more dreary

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Examples

  • - I can't recall a drearier 59 minutes since I last had to drag my canoe single-handed through the brush to the banks of Lake Titicaca.

    A Fieldsian Footnote 2008

  • - I can't recall a drearier 59 minutes since I last had to drag my canoe single-handed through the brush to the banks of Lake Titicaca.

    Archive 2008-01-27 2008

  • But my life was still in transition: I was moving from one furnished sublet to another, and each seemed progressively darker, drearier, and colder than the last.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • But my life was still in transition: I was moving from one furnished sublet to another, and each seemed progressively darker, drearier, and colder than the last.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Similarly to their earlier cognates, the medieval romances, these books grew longer and drearier every year.

    Books 2010

  • Softer, lower lighting creates that "fall" mood on chilly nights and brighter light for the inevitable onslaught of cloudier/drearier days.

    Courtney Cachet: Fall Decor... Isn't It Time for Something New? Courtney Cachet 2011

  • After all, if we all stayed pedantically committed to our initial interests and behavioural patterns life would seem an awful lot longer and drearier than it presently does.

    Dear Mariella: I do yoga, which makes my boyfriend reckon that I've joined a cult. Can we get past this? 2011

  • Similarly to their earlier cognates, the medieval romances, these books grew longer and drearier every year.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • It was even drearier with rain pouring and lightning flashing from the clouds.

    Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.5 H-M Brown 2011

  • Softer, lower lighting creates that "fall" mood on chilly nights and brighter light for the inevitable onslaught of cloudier/drearier days.

    Courtney Cachet: Fall Decor... Isn't It Time for Something New? Courtney Cachet 2011

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