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Significados de prosy en inglés

Lacking wit or imagination.

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Examples for "pedestrian"
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He said another car or an innocent pedestrian could have been involved.
The Irish Times
2
Between them, they provide Vienna with the finest pedestrian thoroughfare in Europe.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
3
Bliss was not the first pedestrian traffic fatality ever recorded anywhere, however.
Wired
4
Silviniaco Conti was made to look pedestrian, trailing home seven lengths behind.
The Guardian
5
He was the fourth pedestrian of eight road deaths since last Friday.
The Irish Times
1
I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
Masked
2
In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic.
The new yorker
3
In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
4
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
The Irish Times
5
But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
1
Unfortunately for Moyes, United's limits at the moment are far more earthbound.
The Guardian
2
They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloods earthbound war.
Ender’s Game
3
But there's a new choice, one not restricted to an earthbound infrastructure.
Wired
4
Behind them, in grim pursuit, the small, earthbound figure of the stray.
The story of edgar sawtelle
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Beyond that, houseboats can be just as ambitious as any earthbound structure.
Wired
Uso de prosy en inglés
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It is as common as going to bed; it is almost prosy.
A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel
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I wished some dry, prosy petitioners in England could have heard it.
American Scenes, and Christian Slavery / A Recent Tour of Four T...
3
Very true; only, dahlias, at the best, are such uninteresting prosy things.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05
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The witty chairman, the prosy chairman, the solemn chairman,- Iknowthem all.
My Discovery of England
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Treated with accuracy it becomes prosy, treated with fancy it becomes ridiculous.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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You must bear with me if I am prosy for a time.
Princess Maritza
7
Gathering strength in romantic byways to see you through the prosy thoroughfares?
We Three
8
She was not especially appreciated, for she was considered prosy and commonplace.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
9
During the dull, prosy stretches it could sound the toscin and anti-toscin.
The new yorker
10
But I know you will not be prosy, so go on, please.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
11
Aunt Lucinda says Mr. Blake is very spiritual, but he's terribly prosy.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
12
Have I been prosy enough to allow of my leaving off now?
Molly Bawn
13
The other boys are becoming dull and prosy; but we are not changed.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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In truth, a prosy cleric of five-and-forty wants encouragement to make him eloquent.
Two on a Tower
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Then it was prose that was considered dull-hencewe have the word prosy.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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The place is fitter for a poet than a prosy vagabond like me.
Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
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