Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 Dickensian 49 grimy 48 sooty 47 industrialism 47 postindustrial 46 workhouses 46 Thatcherism 45 gasworks 45 dank 45 unlovely 45 draughty 44 dark 44 desolation 44 Industrial Revolution 44 brickworks 43 coalmining 43 bleakly 43 toil 43 soulless 43 wasteland 43 JG Ballard 43 grotty 43 dreary 42 brooding 42 murk 42 dreariness 42 evocation 41 interwar 41 leafy suburbs 41 characterless 41 conurbations 41 dystopia 41 doom laden 41 cheerless 41 dappled 41 pallor 41 pitiless 41 squalor 41 deathly 40 burghers 40 barrenness 40 Thirties 40 hovels 40 Seventies 40 dross 40 grayness 40 darkly 39 picaresque 39 coalfields 39 fairyland 39 dystopian 39 technicolor 39 dingy 39 dreamscapes 39 Friedrich Engels 39 mildewed 39 idyll 39 sunless 39 ironworks 39 archetypal 39 glens 39 fens 38 bleakness 38 ghostly 38 ghost 38 dullness 38 ghettoes 38 puritanism 38 noirish 38 Edwardian 38 Arthur Scargill 38 drab 38 autumnal 38 dustbowl 38 utopia 38 romanticise 38 Blairism 38 colliery 38 pallid 38 barren wasteland 38 fug 38 redolent 38 hollow eyed 38 evocatively 38 misanthropy 38 boomtowns 38 lugubrious 38 bohemia 37 decaying 37 specters 37 luminous 37 lunatic asylum 37 wretched 37 baleful 37 imaginings 37 backwater 37 mediaeval 37 jollity 37 industrial 37 fantasists 37 glimmering