In the world's temperate zones, where drab plumage is the norm, this kingfisher, unlike its North American cousins, bedazzles.
In drab browns and grays on a blue background, it depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.
The life of a person who never does anything is dull and drab.
Though many creatures of the soil layer are a drab grey-brown or pale and colourless, there is no reason why a few cannot be bright and garish.
The female is generally drab, the male per contra brilliant.
His senior colleagues at Harvard—some able, more of them drab—sent him a letter urging him to stay; it said the right things, but was perhaps a little perfunctory.
She had hitherto been far more interested in the drab ochre-washed edifice opposite, which was the Police Station.
She pay me in drib and drab, not all at once.
The world was no longer flat. What were those countries that had all seemed so uniform (and uniformly drab) really like?
The landscape is drab and infested with brick ovens.
There are many drab houses in the smoky mining town.
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