Crossword-Solution: DRABNESS
We have 36 clues for the answer “DRABNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pre-makeover condition | 1 answer |
| Lack of color or interest. | 1 answer |
| Bland state | 1 answer |
| Lack of excitement | 2 answers |
| Lack of cheer | 2 answers |
| Lack of Color | 5 answers |
| Dull gray | 6 answers |
| lonesomeness | 29 answers |
| waterlessness | 29 answers |
| inhospitableness | 29 answers |
| infertility | 29 answers |
| desertedness | 29 answers |
| desolateness | 29 answers |
| starkness | 30 answers |
| purposelessness | 30 answers |
| bleakness | 30 answers |
| dreariness | 31 answers |
| cheerlessness | 31 answers |
| ALONENESS | 31 answers |
| bareness | 31 answers |
| Nakedness | 32 answers |
| loneliness | 34 answers |
| aridity | 34 answers |
| dryness | 35 answers |
| blankness | 35 answers |
| Solitude | 40 answers |
| isolation | 40 answers |
| Baldness | 40 answers |
| barrenness | 42 answers |
| futility | 49 answers |
| meaninglessness | 50 answers |
| Emptiness | 56 answers |
| plainness | 59 answers |
| Monotony | 61 answers |
| austerity | 64 answers |
| worthlessness | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEZEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DRABNESS (5)
Could this drabness of life keep up forever, then? Would she some day so despise herself and her neighbors that she too would walk Main Street an old skinny eccentric woman in a mangy cat's-fur? As she crept home she felt that the trap had finally closed.
Out of bed at six-thirty, at table by seven, tidying bedroom at seven-thirty, dusting sitting-room at eight, on way to school at eight-thirty, was not for "the likes of them!" Only we, slaves of respectability and of an inordinate appetite for order, suffered such monotony and drabness to rule.
Why had the coming of Democracy coincided seemingly with the spread of ugliness: dull towns, mean streets, paper-strewn parks, corrugated iron roofs, Christian chapels that would be an insult to a heathen idol; hideous factories (Why need they be hideous!); chimney- pot hats, baggy trousers, vulgar advertisements, stupid fashions for women that spoilt every line of their figure: dinginess, drabness, monotony everywhere.
These examples are interesting as showing an inclination to express an inner condition by the outward apparel, as the Quakers indicate an inward peace by an external drabness, and the American Indian a bellicose disposition by red and yellow paint; just as we express by red stripes our desire to kill men with artillery, or by yellow stripes to kill them with cavalry.
Bob's society proved in some ways a welcome change from the sordid drabness of her own relatives, for he was colorful, versatile, and nearly always good-humored.
Quotes with DRABNESS (3)
You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it--all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition.
And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.
Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust winnowed to softness at his feet, ad he felt an unbearable feeling, sad and tender, old and sweet like the memory of falling asleep, a baby on his mother's lap. Thousands of people were out though it was almost eleven. He saw a pair of elegant bearded goats in a rickshaw, riding to slaughter. A conference of old men with elegant goat faces, smoking bidis. A mosque and minarets li…
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).