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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dullish
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The bodies of the dead and wounded could be seen lying on the pavement, one of them by a playground, in unverified videos circulating on Telegram, as grey smoke rose into the sky.—
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Rather than reject their advances, Max performs the middle-aged male mating call: jogging in a pair of grey sweatpants with no underwear.—
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The collection also includes modular ribbed halters and tanks, featuring ombre effects transitioning between black, drab and white.—
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Her white dress and defiant smile stand out in a crowd of drab grayscale suits and uniforms.—
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Anything that isn’t someone bleeding out is boring to them, that kind of thing.—
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But here, it’s all viewed through a workplace-comedy format, which captures the kind of boring ordinariness of typical medical care while also getting at some of the big frustrations of understaffing.—
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Before Toby, mornings spent driving my daughter to school were monotonous and filled with traffic.—
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While monotonous at times, Krukow and Kuiper both offered praise for the employees who created a memorable working environment.—
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The risk of hard Nilla wafers or utterly soggy ones is too great to justify ordering it at any restaurant, willy nilly.—
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In Poor Soil Less-than-ideal soil could be rocky or heavy clay soil, nutrient-poor, or soil with poor drainage that stays too soggy.—
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Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.—
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In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.—
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And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.—
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How the Thieves Pulled it Off The M.O. in the Gardner heist is much more prosaic than what people see on the silver screen.—
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Scientists at two leading national laboratories under the U.S. Department of Energy are pioneering solutions to solve the growing and tedious problem of recycling e-waste.—
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Hoping to find a fan that would take the job seriously, the Ballers made the application process long and tedious.—
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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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