Related Clues:

• Not promising
• Just about hopeless
• Grim
• Far from promising
• Dickens's '___ House'
• Hardly hospitable
• Dickens' ''___ House''
• Dickens novel
• Cold and raw
• Discouraging
• Rather hopeless
• Arousing pessimism
• Desolate, hopoeless
• Desolate, barren
• Unpleasantly cold