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Meanings of more humdrum in English

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Usage of more humdrum in English
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Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
London's Underworld
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Nothing can be more humdrum than Christmas at the Great House.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Mining shares might underperform as investors struggled to acclimatise to more humdrum returns.
Reuters
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The true tale, of course, is something much more humdrum.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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But the vast majority of traffic is more humdrum and doesn't need that level of security.
The Guardian
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A more humdrum scene I never saw.
A Face Illumined
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Now the Pentagon brass is mulling a name change that would make the cadre seem even more humdrum.
Wired
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He stepped out of El Dorado let himself down, not without a jar, on to more humdrum earth.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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But a few feet away, the reality was a whole lot more humdrum -and a whole lot cuter.
Wired
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His image, he resolved, "would have to be something a bit more confusing, a bit more humdrum".
The Guardian
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The engine could have a richer induction noise, to separate it from the more humdrum version in a normal Juke.
BBC
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The current version is rather more humdrum, even though they are still on course for a return to the Champions League.
The Guardian
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But in his quest to win another champion jockey's title he clearly sees some of the more humdrum corners of British racing.
The Guardian
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A year in the life of a wedding magazine is a rather different affair than it is for publications with more humdrum subject matters.
The Irish Times
15
What moment could be more humdrum and unworthy of special record than the one chosen by the artist for the chapel we are considering?
Essays on Life, Art and Science
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More humdrum nuclear fission, Segrè declared, and he dashed off a paper with the glum title "An Unsuccessful Search for Transuranic Elements."
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
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