gloomy

• He glanced down into the gloomy area, where a lean and untidy cat was prowling, and where there sounded, echoing, the undistinguishable harangue of the fretful Italian janitress Now Johnnie's general survey was done. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• There was no affectation of shaded lights and gloomy, mysterious spaces. —  Gossamer 1915
• His sermons were gloomy, and so long that he occasionally would startle the congregation by calling out to some culprit, "Sit up there, how daur ye sleep i' the kirk." —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• But it has groaned and looked gloomy, and asked mute questions with its eyes. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
• The shade is so thick as to exclude the heavens; all is retired and gloomy, a brown horror breathing over the whole. —  A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779

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