drabness's Usage Examples:

AllMusic called it "lo-fi to the point of tonal drabness, as the instruments seem to ring out in only one tone, that of screechy.

The book focuses on the drabness of life in the student residence, and the suspicions and disaffection of.

towards communism in the Balkans and is plainly also an attack on the drabness of the continent following the Second World War.

chest will be opened and an improbable phantom will try to bedeck the drabness of these two people's failure laden lives with the gold and precious stones.

The uniformity of its drabness means its eponymous 'brown rump' is often not apparent.

Juxtaposed onto the harsh drabness of their robotically efficient existence is a soft falling snow.

The one exception to this rule of general drabness in colouration is the striking "herring boned" colour pattern of green.

as "a description-definition-literary artwork" which avoided both the drabness of a dictionary and the inadequacy of poetry.

Its comedy centres on the drabness of an oppressive domestic situation and, in the flowering of George Potter.

were bogged down by the business of running their stalls, and the sheer drabness of the set compounded the monotony.

The drabness of a north-of-England coal town, the warmth of a poor coal miner's home.

film, which was aimed at male Generation X viewers, showed the unromantic drabness and pettiness of life in the suburbs in Western Canada, a stark contrast.

Negative reviews commented on an overall drabness of the movie (Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail), its mediocrity (Alexander Lowe.

Clash captures much of the drabness of the seacoast fishing town, background of the pic, but only occasionally.

"There is not the smallest chance that he was Shakespeare", citing the drabness of the verse, while acknowledging that the play's aspirations indicate.

bright colours, and proper lighting—all of which contrasted with the drabness of military hospitals—were attributed to the women's ability to consider.

Others pointed out a muted palette and a tendency to drabness along with strong composition, ability to develop a subject freshly and.

with drabness and human degradation in a Moscow derisively nicknamed 'Chekago' (Lowndes.

Synonyms:

homeliness; dowdiness; inelegance;

Antonyms:

breeding; genteelness; tastefulness; elegance;