- Boring
- Dismal
- Dismal dry listener inside
- Doleful
- Dull
- Gloomy
- Gloomy characters in old rear yard
- Boring return of Shakespeare, maybe
- Colourless
- Dingy
- Dreary bard came back
- Dull
- Dull grey
- Dull in colour
- Black
- Bleak to be in accursed Arkansas
- Gloomy
- Ignorant, in the ...
- Lacking light
- livid
- Not illuminated
- Abstinent
- As ... as a judge
- Boer’s boisterous but not drunk
- Changing sides of robes is sensible
- Clear headed, unintoxicated
- Clear-headed, unintoxicated
- Dry sore formed around blackhead
- Formal and dignified
- Formal and dignified; serious
- Grave
- Grave for lone, heartless man
- grave serious
- Inspiring awe
- Serious and dignified