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Recent Examples of dullish
Although his dullish voice-overs attempt to establish him as a deep thinker and observer, Moss outwardly comes off as anything but: surly, cocky, needy, slackerish, immature.
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Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dullish
Adjective
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The cinematography feels flat and drab, with few interesting compositions that stick out in the mind.—
Chase Hutchinson,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2026
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And The Row’s appeal at first seemed like a pretentious effort to keep the TikTok crowd from gaping at its founders Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s it-shoes and fab-drab tailoring.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Simply, Florida’s Pro Day was as boring as ever.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Given a list, the sorts of things Americans are comfortable with AI doing tend to be impersonal or even boring tasks, as well as those that less directly impact them, like proofreading or searching online.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The result is a style that looks harmonious but is anything but monotonous.—
Jana Ackermann,
Glamour,
28 Mar. 2026
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That monotonous diet would be supplemented with eggs, milk, cheese, fish, or vegetables when available, and meat on special occasions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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By the start of the 20th century, instead of offering a few prosy sentences that gestured vaguely toward ingredient amounts, American recipes increasingly began with a list of ingredients in precise, numerical quantities: teaspoons, ounces, cups.—
Helen Zoe Veit,
Smithsonian,
19 Sep. 2017
Adjective
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Using a 10-liter reactor, heat and pressure were applied to turn soggy stillage into a fine black powder, which was then refined in a furnace into two distinct materials.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026
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Water deeply but less often, keeping the soil damp but not soggy.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The premise is uninteresting, and, worst of all, the jokes aren’t remotely funny.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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As our Mike Vorkunov already pointed out, the four teams that are pennies above the tax line (Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix and Toronto) are virtually guaranteed to make small deals to get under; these will just be spectacularly uninteresting trades in terms of actual basketball.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Other stories are a little more prosaic, and even funny, as in the case of footballer Miodrag Belodedici, who had been part of Romania’s Steaua Bucharest team that beat Barcelona in the 1986 European Cup final.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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The rest concerns prosaic matters of marital and family relations, commercial transactions, and ritual.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Look for ways to gamify tedious tasks or purposefully try to have a good attitude about upcoming chores.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2026
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What sets them apart is, in exchange for yearly sacrifices in the form of new hires who seem like they won’t be missed, the Virgil’s inhabitants have been granted a conditional immortality that makes the film’s action sequences more fun for a while and then more tedious.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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