Related Clues:

• Hardly hospitable
• Sombre
• Dickens' ''___ House''
• Uninviting
• Like reality, at times
• Dickens novel
• Cold and raw
• Stern-looking
• Discouraging
• Lacking mirth
• Rather hopeless
• Arousing pessimism
• Humorless
• Dark, as prospects
• Affording no hope