dullish

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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. Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dullish
Adjective
  • People want to include crape myrtles and roses-of-Sharon as their privacy plants, for example, and both of those, while lovely in summer, would be bare and drab in the winter.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The before-and-after photos are striking, demonstrating just how much some of these crafty, keen-eyed parents — most of whom have no prior design experience — can make of the drab dorm layout that greets students on move-in day.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After a few speeches, the on-screen timer became monotonous and distracting.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Shrek is in a monotonous lull with his kids, Fiona, Donkey, and even Puss in Boots.
    Skyler Trepel September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Clay planter pebbles, often used in hydroponics, are porous to draw water up to the seeds and keep the environment moist but not soggy.
    The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This will stop the jelly from making the bread soggy.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That, and try to seem as uninteresting as possible.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The files, however, were a bust, consisting mostly of uninteresting or already public information.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The more prosaic story is classic scientific self-correction.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • If sacred means separate, outside of the prosaic flux of things, then this Japanese city is sacred.
    Ed Simon August 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In practice, however, the joke has proven tedious.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And for the first time, the Siena Express offers a genuine taste of Italy's rail heritage while unlocking a region that has long required tedious car rentals or complicated bus connections.
    Jenn Rice, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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