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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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Forcing is an easy way to add bright color to your home in drab winter weather.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Oct. 2025
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The living room, encased in dark mahogany panelling, looked onto a drab alleyway filled with trash bins, and the apartment’s two floors were connected by a narrow spiral staircase that risked putting parents in mind of a broken neck.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Despite looking like a fighter pilot who could win a game of dogfight football, Colin isn’t framed as a temptation for Marissa, and a lack of sexy secrets proves to be a recurring blind spot for the series, even if those two have plenty of other skeletons in their massive, boring closets.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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All this after Fern just wanted to renovate her boring bookseller life by starting over next to her orc pal Viv’s coffee shop!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Few dungeon-like areas mean nearly everything occurs on the monotonous Lumiose City streets.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
27 Oct. 2025
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Life was exceedingly dull, monotonous, and uncertain for a long while, Curry wrote.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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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To prevent the card from becoming soggy, fold a piece of clear tape across the bottom of the card before inserting into the fruit.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Nov. 2025
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Drain any excess water sitting in the saucer and don’t let the soil get soggy.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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With both of these cases being largely hollow and uninteresting, even despite the involvement of a traffic-cone-size butt plug, the burden is on Allura’s arc to grip us.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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Toxic relationships and love triangles also ranked among the most tiresome or uninteresting tropes for young viewers.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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By hinting that his business was the victim of shape-shifting saboteurs, Westergaard distracted from the more prosaic story about the carelessness of his staff.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The most prosaic explanation is that Villarroel’s transients are simply artifacts in the photographic plates such as speckles of dust, blobs in the emulsion or even radioactive particles.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The details of the killing felt tedious at times.—
Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Despite the rage spewing from the Emirates rafters at full time — a contentious draw keeping Arsenal five points adrift of Chelsea — this is just a tedious affair now.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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