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Meanings of as dull in English

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Usage of as dull in English
1
It could be described as dull, but then so could many places.
The Irish Times
2
The things that I love you shrink from as dull and tiresome.
Beulah
3
The picnic was as dull as she had feared it would be.
Missy
4
Indeed, it had been frankly designated by the casual guest as dull.
T. Tembarom
5
But this week's episode was as dull as Mary and Matthew's marriage.
The Irish Times
6
She was a twenties starlet as dull as any other twenties starlet.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
7
Japanese ladies look very picturesque, but they are as dull as dolls.
Kimono
8
Anne's voice was as dull and flat as she could make it.
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
9
It is as extravagant as Ariosto, and as dull as Wilkie's Epigoniad.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
10
Miss Austen strikes me as milk-and-watery, and, to say truth, as dull.'
Some Private Views
11
And I feel as dull as empty space before the creation got started.
The Far Horizon
12
In the end, the person becomes as dull and simple as the koloss.
Arcanum Unbounded
13
My fellow-passengers said it was as dull as it was calm.
Recalled to Life
14
It is as dull as a monastery of La Trappe here.
Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel
15
It is all as dull as ditch-water now Monsieur de Malfort is gone.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
16
He was really not so cunning as dull and anxious to get along.
The Financier: A Novel
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As dull through the time
As dull across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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