She dresses drably. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now everything is even more drably gray than normal. bnitro. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - ELR delayed one earth week…] Reference
"Roland hasn't got any central police force," she finished drably. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Air and Darkness]
She was drably dressed, hunch-backed and wistful behind her specs. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
The reader read it very drably - without any change in tone or inflection. From Wordnik.com. [PodCastle » PC040: Hell Is the Absence of God - PodCastle Giant] Reference
Distantly, the iceberg groaned, its voice echoing drably across the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
The cars were old and rusted, the people drably dressed in hoods and boots. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
They must have all been in some drably uniform tunics, or the like, he decided. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenborn]
Flandry saw her disheveled, drably clad, signs of weeping upon her, against the stars. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
He advises professionals to write carefully, but not defensively, certainly not drably. From Wordnik.com. [English Lives. Tell The Grammar Police.] Reference
Besides, who would think that a drably clad little gray man carried a fortune on his person?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
He is the last to open his present - and inside is a small, weathersoaked, drably-yellow bird. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need A New Star Wars Holiday Special] Reference
There was someone there — a stranger dressed neatly but rather drably in gray cloak and bonnet. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
I resent the implication that engineers are the most 'dismally, drably dressed humans on the planet'. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A for Dress A Day - A Dress A Day] Reference
A thousand Mersians must be present: clients, commoners, city proletariat, drably clad for the most part. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
He turned, to-find himself gazing into the eyes of a second tervardi, this one drably plumaged in black and red-brown. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
Today the UN investigators live and work in 50 drably furnished rooms spread out over the five floors of the Monteverde. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Away With Murder?] Reference
What is drably called health-care reform is actually social engineering on a scale never before consciously attempted in America. From Wordnik.com. [Salesmanship Isn't Leadership] Reference
The crowd lining the opposite side of the street stood in solid ranks, drably clad, eyes following the procession, mouths working. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
At the end, weeping drably, Zilla promised to restrain herself. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
Fat, ugly, repressed and drably dressed Charlotte, as played by Bette Davis in. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
To-day it is, next to St. John's Wood, the most drably respectable quarter of the town. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
If these disputes strike some readers as drably technical, Mr. Siblin is well aware of that problem. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
What does it mean that the creators of these spaces reach for gravitas with drably ordered symmetry?. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley Advocate: News] Reference
Ansari is funny, so hopefully he will add some of his weirdo humor to the drably blitzkrieg proceedings. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Understanding the tiny differences between one drably plausible group and another may be crucial to our future happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
At the point where the setbacks open out, the facade becomes a sequence of ribbon windows that looks to be at best, drably functional. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Deal New York - Latest News] Reference
And the little bells on the Chinese cook’s grave tinkled drably: Hee Sing, Hee Sing, Hee Sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
But here it's just that, a trick, a way of injecting the illusion of surprise into what would otherwise be a drably predictable fable. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
She was not drably shabby, though. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
In pain we're all drably individual. From Wordnik.com. [impersonal banking & tuberculosis] Reference
The drama, most of it in flashback, unreels in drably efficient socialist-realism style, with a dynamic (dare one say. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Scene] Reference
How drably they dressed!. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
They showed up rather drably against the glory of. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
Bottega Veneta - seemed drably similar and down. From Wordnik.com. [NYCweboy] Reference
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