"dreary about" is not a grammatically correct phrase and is not commonly used in written English.
It is possible that an individual could use this phrase in informal speech, but it would not be considered standard English. Instead, a more appropriate phrase may be "dreary weather" or "feeling dreary." Example: The news was dreary about the increase in crime rates, making the citizens feel anxious.
MOSCOW — There is nothing dreary about Orphanage No. 11.
There's something dreary about pointing out the historical inaccuracies of a period drama.
By Elizabeth Minkel August 24, 2011 There's something dreary about pointing out the historical inaccuracies of a period drama.
Yet there is something a bit dreary about Kramer's call for such unvarnished expressions of judgment — something as inaccessible, in its way, as references to thiols or pyrazines.
She told me so many stories, both colorful ones and dreary, about her work, about going to the movies, about her childhood – the sort of things that happen in every life.
There is something slightly dreary about the bar in the Pierre, like a fading movie star trying to hide the wrinkles bright clothes and cheap jewelry.
Mr. Obama on Tuesday invoked a distant -- possibly apocryphal -- cousin, Wild Bill Hickok, and suggested that he and Senator John McCain forget the dreary debate-about-where-they-will-debate and just strap on six-shooters and meet at 60 paces.
He walked around Hull during the day and went on at this club that night and just talked about the dreary weather, about work, the wife and the mother-in-law... and the crowd clapped.
That might sound odd, given that evidence of interest in the royal family is everywhere: over a million people turned out in London for the queen's golden jubilee; dreary books about royals easily outsell ones about elected politicians; and the young royal princes fill the newspapers.
"Fast Food, Fast Women," Amos Kollek's dreary new comedy about -- gulp -- unsatisfied appetites, almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
Mr. Kollek's dreary new comedy about -- gulp -- unsatisfied appetites almost creates a sense of dread as you sit watching its raft of aimless, self-absorbed neurotics clang into one another.
