drabness

After the drabness of the 1950s, her clothes were chic and slightly transgressive, but not haute couture.

I want to sit on its benches again in spite of their treacherous bleakness, in spite of the drabness.

The loneliness and drabness of working away from people are fatal to his best effort.

Only we, slaves of respectability and of an inordinate appetite for order, suffered such monotony and drabness to rule.

Little ridges of tiny blue flames, to speed up the drying of the ink, made blobs of color in the drabness.

There were, it is true, a few redeeming features gilding the prevailing drabness of the scene.