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Significados de prosaic em inglês

Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.

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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
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Between them, they provide Vienna with the finest pedestrian thoroughfare in Europe.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
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Bliss was not the first pedestrian traffic fatality ever recorded anywhere, however.
Wired
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Silviniaco Conti was made to look pedestrian, trailing home seven lengths behind.
The Guardian
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He was the fourth pedestrian of eight road deaths since last Friday.
The Irish Times
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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...
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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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Unfortunately for Moyes, United's limits at the moment are far more earthbound.
The Guardian
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They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloods earthbound war.
Ender’s Game
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But there's a new choice, one not restricted to an earthbound infrastructure.
Wired
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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

Not fanciful or imaginative.

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Uso de prosaic em inglês
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I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
Masked
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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
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Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
The Irish Times
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But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
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Terse, strong, prosaic-thevery genius of the race was in the cry.
Through the Magic Door
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It seemed such a prosaic way of growing such a luscious fruit.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
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That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.
Anne of Green Gables
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Nickleville is the prosaic name of that little hamlet in western Pennsylvania.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
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But this is only the practical and prosaic side of the question.
Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
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He thinks I am hard and prosaic, and is disappointed in me.
A Houseful of Girls
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These are kind of prosaic uses of a bold new tech, no?
Wired
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The reality for the Garda Siochana is a little bit more prosaic.
The Irish Times
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After the poet-psalmist came the prosaic and keen-sighted shrewd man of affairs.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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Such, then, in prosaic statement is the most characteristic message of Wordsworth.
Wordsworth
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The canal is his master hobby, the poetry of his prosaic existence.
The Henchman
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