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Significados de dreariness en inglés

portugués
insipidez
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avorriment

Extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest.

insipidez
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Examples for "insipidity"
Examples for "insipidity"
1
To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
2
The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
Phaedrus
3
He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
4
She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity.
A Cathedral Courtship
5
What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity?
Sermons on Biblical Characters
1
The questions did not focus on just the chief news correspondent's boringness quotient.
The Irish Times
2
His tone reflected the boringness and triviality of the incident.
Hemlock Grove
3
If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry?
The End of the Affair
4
The series feigned to mock their homeland's eccentricity and boringness.
The Guardian
5
I need boringness -for nothing to be happening.
The Guardian
1
In Manchester United's ongoing insipidness under José Mourinho a perfect storm of problems is found.
The Irish Times
2
The happy medium means respectability, and respectability means insipidness.
The Diary of a Nobody
3
In fact, the quiz-show segment saves this kid-friendly title from the insipidness often endemic to children's software.
Wired
4
When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial.
Yet Again
5
A slavish accuracy in figures, an arid lack of imagination, reduces conversation to the insipidness of flat wine, and Blaze's talk was never dull.
Heart of the Sunset
Uso de dreariness en inglés
1
The day was dark and rainy; the landscape was a flat dreariness.
The Colossus: A Novel
2
The charm of life was gone; there was nothing but dreariness left.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
3
I see that all is not dreariness and misery in the Poplars.
Dona Perfecta
4
As to the house itself, it was the dingy abode of dreariness.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
5
My dreariness has not been induced by the look of the house.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
6
The dreariness of my heart thawed and melted into peace and calm.
The Upton Letters
7
She suddenly put her face against his shoulder in a lonely dreariness.
The Emigrant Trail
8
After the dreariness of Norfolk, the prospect of action had excited him.
The Neutronium Alchemist
9
She was moody and longed for something that would banish the dreariness.
Lister's Great Adventure
10
It's no wonder that 11-year-old Jason Lowry dreams of escaping the dreariness.
The Irish Times
11
I said to myself, oppressed by the dreariness, as I drove by.
Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
12
The first thing, I think, that I grew conscious of, was dreariness.
The Flight of the Shadow
13
She could escape the dreariness of that underground cell, but Oscar couldn't.
In every heartbeat
14
This dreariness was worse than any her dreary, lonely life had known.
The Trespasser
15
The effect upon him was one of indescribable, almost of horrible, dreariness.
In the Wilderness
16
Oh, the dreariness of the reality when compared with those bright expectations.
We Two: A Novel
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