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Significats de humdrum en anglès
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
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Examples for "commonplace"
Examples for "commonplace"
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Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2
But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3
Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace.
4
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace.
5
The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
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I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
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In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic.
3
In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
4
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
5
But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
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But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
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Production values are thrifty but resourcefully deployed to accentuate the unglamorous environment.
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For a generally unglamorous and rather functional product, primer elicits much conversation.
4
In other words, it shows the unglamorous side of the jet-lag life.
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Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
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The film star was dressed for bed in a very unglamourous, extra-large man's T-shirt.
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At the stage door there were no crowds of groupies or fans - just forty unglamourous people waiting for backstage passes.
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Some might say that Portadown were stuck in limbo last season, sucked into the unglamourous atmosphere of All-Ireland League Division Three.
Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; all work and no play"
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Ús de humdrum en anglès
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This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
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England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
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In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
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Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum, honest labor.
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She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
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He had brought the splendour of an ideal into my humdrum life.
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To earn her living in a humdrum way she had no need.
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Perhaps it was because his own day-to-day existence was placid and humdrum.
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I'm tired of being a humdrum fairy year in and year out.
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She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
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No, I am afraid that Viking is too humdrum to be notable.
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Her assemblages of apparently humdrum objects are catnip to galleries and collectors.
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Away from the eerie graveyard of the cliff, the island is humdrum.
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After all, we are but humdrum people, as the world goes now.
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Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
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Rapper Eve further slums down the track with a superfluous, humdrum rap.
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