- a blue day.
- a dark gloomy day.
- a dirty (or dingy) white.
- a disconsolate winter landscape.
- a grungy kitchen.
- a miner's begrimed face.
- a week of rainy depressing weather.
- dingy linen.
- dirty.
- dirty-blonde hair.
- dirty-green walls.
- grim rainy weather.
- grimy hands.
- grubby little fingers.
- muddy colors.
- the dark days of the war.
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November.
- the muddied grey of the sea.