Crossword clues for drearily
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drearily \Drear"i*ly\, adv. Gloomily; dismally.
Wiktionary
adv. In a dreary manner
WordNet
adv. in a cheerless manner; "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" [syn: dismally]
Usage examples of "drearily".
He went home and spent the afternoon in his library over books about the Cotswold country, drearily conscious of futility.
He was back in his room wondering drearily whether he could sleep an hour if he lay down.
The gray morning twilight stole drearily through the closed shutter, and the lamp burned dim and dismal still.
Babette shivered under her shawl, and looked more drearily than ever at the lashing sleet.
Kate wandered drearily up stairs and down stairs, and felt desolate and forsaken beyond all precedent.
Kate stood by the window, looking out drearily at the matinal sunlight.
Croix, and listened drearily, as if he was speaking an unknown tongue, to Father Francis, preaching patience and long-suffering to the end.
But it brought no sense of comfort to her, and she sat drearily back while Eunice dressed her for dinner, and stared blankly into the fire, wondering if her whole life was to go on like this.
But the baby was fretful, and cried and moaned drearily, and resisted every effort to be soothed to sleep.
It is a series of drearily rectangular blocks joined by glassed-in catwalks, looking extremely like a jail and covered in slogans of unimaginative rancour about FASCHISTS.
Max was dead, and--and she shivered drearily as if it had been the depth of winter.
His fire had died down to the tiniest spark, the wind howled round the chimney and whistled through the crack beneath the door, and the rain beat drearily against the window-panes.
Yussef Ali along the winding hallways, down the steps--Kathulos was not in the idol room--and along the tunnel, then through the rooms of the Temple of Dreams and out into the street, where the street lamps gleamed drearily through the fogs and a slight drizzle.
Seagani tavern wench who was leaning drearily in a doorway and asked the price of a meal and a drink.
Just as the leopard cannot change his spots, so could I not overnight and by the simple pronouncing of words and the exchanging of rings before witnesses convert myself to a circumspect and drearily puritanical sobersides.