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drearily

Adverb

Meaning

Gloomily; dismally.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers, Over a somnolent whisper of loves and hates, The slow wind flows, drearily streams and falls, With a mournful sound down rain-dark walls. Conrad Aiken

For Polletti, experience had brought only the bitter residue of pleasure which is the true essence of disenchantment. Certain delights which in his youth had seemed unique and unobtainable had turned out, upon acquisition, to be infinitely and drearily repeatable. Robert Sheckley

Little Archie's story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar. Stephen R. Lawhead

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 Source: Internet

Though the early-game quests and lore are drearily dry, the game becomes more interesting as the story dissipates and you begin closing the sporadic, dimensional rifts that unleash a flurry of demonic beings into the game’s sprawling landscapes. Source: Internet

I asked him if he was gonna sing ‘Waiting in Vain’ that night, and he just kind of looked up drearily and said,‘Oh, maybe.’ Source: Internet

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