"her drab personality"
"life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
"a series of dreary dinner parties"

"drab faded curtains"
"sober Puritan grey"
"children in somber brown clothes"

"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
"a week of rainy depressing weather"
"a disconsolate winter landscape"
"the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
"a dark gloomy day"
"grim rainy weather"