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Meanings of bromidic in inglés
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.
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Examples for "corny"
Examples for "corny"
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She said it best herself: it was corny, but it was fun.
2
I had never managed to portray human nature without being horribly corny.
3
I know it sounds corny, but I'd like us to be friends.
4
Now, this is not the opening line of a corny mother-in-law gag.
5
It had been love at first sight, as corny as that was.
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He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.
2
This is platitudinous, but it needs to be borne in mind.
3
The thing has become platitudinous, but remains as difficult as ever.
4
That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought.
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These gentlemen, with few exceptions, made heavy, ponderous, and platitudinous speeches.
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The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.
2
Perry quickly midwifed-ascreator, writer, and director-thesoapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
3
Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour.
Usage of bromidic in inglés
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The guests arrived shortly and there were the usual stiff, bromidic greetings.
2
By a similar reasoning, a Hypo-Sulphite can, at a step, become bromidic.
3
Caliph felt fairly certain there was some kind of bromidic metaphor going on.
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The mirrored bromidic mind gives back only what it has taken.
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Sulphites come together like drops of mercury, in this bromidic world.
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In costume, perhaps, men still are more bromidic than women.
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How bromidic to note it-wehave many tastes in common!
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We accept their mania and cease to regard it; it, in a word, becomes bromidic.
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The chief characteristic, then, seems to be a certain reflex psychological action of the bromidic brain.
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Your own mother, your sister, your sweetheart, may be bromidic, but you are not less affectionate.
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Dr. Johnson was, himself, a Sulphite of the Sulphites, but how intensely bromidic were his writings!
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We are all born with certain bromidic tendencies, and children are the greatest bromides in the world.
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This is one of the few exceptions to the rule that a sulphitic thing can become bromidic.
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Becky Sharp was sulphitic; Amelia Sedley bromidic.
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The "Cherry Sisters" aroused immense curiosity by an act so bromidic as to be ridiculous.
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Brian, it was plain, had been decoyed by bromidic tales of cub reporters and "record-smashing beats."
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