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UK
/dɹˈiəɹɪli/
]
ADVERB
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in a cheerless manner
in August 1914, there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future
How To Use drearily In A Sentence
- That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity
- It is a reaction against modern R & B, which is neither drearily excessive nor underachieving.
- Laura stared drearily at herself in the mirror.
- The house so drearily out of repair, the occasional bow – window, the stuccoed house, the newly – fronted house, the corner house with nothing but angular rooms, the house with the blinds always down, the house with the hatchment always up, the house where the collector has called for one quarter of an Idea, and found nobody at home — who has not dined with these? Little Dorrit
- In the hands of a lesser writer, such a scenario might have smacked drearily of one of those worthy social docu-dramas.
- After more than a decade of generally dull design, when it was a common complaint that the majority of cars looked drearily alike, a welcome touch of blue-sky anarchy is breaking out.
- Toplit, the galleria is fundamentally part of the mall with its roof taken off and built up with layers of university to form a much more noble space than the drearily functional and rather dark volume there before.
- She contemplated drearily the fact that it was a Saturday; the day when everybody supposedly enjoyed themselves.
- That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity
- Within the vestibule, red lighting ached drearily on the eye.