as in drab
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Recent Examples of dullish
But Koreeda dawdles over all that without ever finding much dramatic nuance, making for a dullish midsection.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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
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Everything’s going to be white or everything’s going to be blue edge or everything is going to be drab.
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In certain soaring drone shots, the Gobi’s dry, greige sprawl looks like nothing so much as the surface of another planet, at least until it’s disrupted by snaking manmade infrastructure and drab light industry.
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Sustainable growth feels boring from the inside.
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The point is to make the boring stuff feel like a hangout, not to build a productivity system.
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Rather than replacing existing automation, humanoid robots are intended to complement it by handling monotonous, ergonomically challenging, or safety-critical tasks while allowing employees to focus on higher-value work.
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Across two experiments, participants completed deliberately monotonous tasks, including copying or reading telephone numbers, before taking a creative uses test.
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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.
Adjective
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Keep potted blueberries consistently moist but not soggy, supplementing any rainfall so the plants get 1 inch of water each week in the first year.
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The first pair hardly lasted a season; after several backpacking missions on soggy trails, the mesh on the uppers was practically shredded, and the outsoles had started to separate from the rest of the shoe.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.
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In 2024 this broad ethic of democracy came into conflict with a more prosaic politic.
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The unique features hide a center touchscreen the way an architect’s home keeps prosaic televisions out of sight.
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The premise is simple, since tedious work feels lighter with company, and the appeal is rooted in something deeper than productivity.
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Viewers gave the robots names like Bob, Frank, Gary, Rose, and Jim, watched to see which would jam or drop a box and turned an intentionally tedious feed into something between a reality show and a sleep aid.
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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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