Related Clues:

• Part of screed is malicious, dreary
• Sad face, taking in storm on vacation
• Gloomy face, bored by second minute
• “She had the ____ precocity of poverty” (Thackeray, describing Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair)
• Very far from fine
• Very dreary
• Grim and unhappy maids facing student
• Miserable face sergeant-major wears
• Really bad senior cops strike back
• Miserable maids, mistreated, left
• Gloomy sergeant major wearing ring
• Bleak and dreary
• Woeful, depressing
• Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing ... D is the initial sign of misery, all unending
• Grey slate to hammer back