bleak

It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.

It was a bleak and boisterous night and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street.

And yet it cannot be denied that the prosperity of the whole poor, bleak countryside depends upon his presence.

A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.