drear

“For largely dramatic roles, I’ve long cast actors with comic chops; they know how to make emotions real but without drear,” the director said in an email.

The design scheme of the production can be summed up as fluorescent drear, presumably to convey the grimness of Jamie’s school.

Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.

It’s like Britain’s last kitchen-sink movie, a film that focuses on pure domestic drear.

I imagined the Lonely Mountains isolated by their own vastness and strangeness, their slow, cold hearts filled with a drear and incurable loneliness.