What is "drably"

Usage examples of "drably".

Two steps took them down into a low, square room, drably furnished with a simple cot, a chair, a table, and a chest.

He paused as he saw a throng of people, drably dressed, then realized, from the heavy skirts worn by most of the crowd, that he watched the villagers who, in turn, watched the uneven battle from the crest of the dunes beside the channel.

Since leaving them, Olivia realized, her life had turned as drably brown as an acre of parched land.

One of them, seated at the desk, was elderly, grey-haired, drably clad, drooping and physically frail, irresolute and in definably unworldly of aspect.

Strapped into a chair, the official looked an habitually sad type: a sallow, slightly porcine individual, drably dressed.

To his eyes she was drably dressed, a peach-colored skirt suit, cut severely, worn over a white blouse, a chain at her neck, as pale and fine as one of her hairs.

Curia Hostilia had been uninspiring within: the tiers had been blocks of unrendered tufa, the walls drably painted with a few red curliques and lines on a beige background, the curule dais more tufa stone, and the central space between the two banks of tiers tessellated in black and white marble so old it had long lost polish or majesty.

Nynaeve saw faces as pale as that of any Andorman and as dark as that of any of the Sea Folk, some clean, some dirty, and coats with high collars, low collars, no collars, drably colored and bright, plain and embroidered, shabby and near new-made, in styles strange as often as familiar.

The shapeless lumps of metal mocking him from above the fireplace, a drably clad man slipping in at the doors with a knife in his hand, the books lying everywhere.

I had dressed drably, I realized now--I suppose to seem responsible and reliable to Detective Ryan.

Many drably costumed women and girls sat around tables interspersed among the beds.

The lissome figure of the drably clad woman wavered before her audience.