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drearily

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɹɪəɹɪli/Part of speech adverbSorted adeilrryStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. in a cheerless manner

Word origin

From Middle English drerily, from Old English drēoriġlīċe; equivalent to dreary + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
  • A bereft landscape of sad browns and sepias of winter lay all about us, the marshland drearily protracting itself towards the wide river.
  • It seemed drearily suggestive, the last journey of this humble mortality, in all the splendid environment of the mountains, under the vast expansions of the aloof skies, in the mystic light of the unnoting moon.

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