Слово "dreary". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  The house itself was large and rather dreary looking. It was shut in by trees, the branches of which actually touched the roof.

“It’s a wild, dreary enough place to my mind, though there’s plenty that likes it—particularly when the heather’s in bloom.”

Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end.

With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands.

His voice was utterly and drearily expressionless.

'Oh, comrade,' she began in a dreary, whining sort of voice, 'I thought I heard you come in.