Taupe. Any blend of gray and brown or beige. The most “neutral” of neutral colors.
Every hue comes in some hideous shades, but those dead noncolors are the worst.
What excuses them, in art, is that they are often needed for shadows. When you look at, say, a portrait done realistically and with natural-looking shadows, you tend not to see the actual color that was on the brush to render the shadow; instead, you see it as a continuation of the expected flesh color, as it appears out of the light.
Even when I look at a portrait that I’ve done, let’s say of a subject wearing glasses, I tend to forget that I had to use another color and create that shadow; instead it just looks like a shadow. And those often depend on the very colors I dislike using. The shadows are what make the form.
To choose them as a color to wear, though, or to live inside or drive around in . . . well, I never would.