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Meanings of humdrum in английском
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
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Синонимы
Examples for "monotonous"
Examples for "monotonous"
1
It is brutal; it is monotonous; it is not at all exquisite.
2
But in Paris the trip becomes too monotonous; and his diary says:
3
Major Major went back to Washington Irving when John Milton grew monotonous.
4
It often strikes me with horror that peace is really extremely monotonous.
5
There was something calming in the monotonous voice of the old crone.
Usage of humdrum in английском
1
This was a humdrum occasion and, at times, a rather sloppy display.
2
England lost three wickets carelessly on the way to a humdrum victory.
3
In her humdrum life the falling away of Mrs. Tufton loomed catastrophic.
4
Their peculiar talents are hidden by the obscurity of humdrum, honest labor.
5
She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
6
He had brought the splendour of an ideal into my humdrum life.
7
To earn her living in a humdrum way she had no need.
8
Perhaps it was because his own day-to-day existence was placid and humdrum.
9
I'm tired of being a humdrum fairy year in and year out.
10
She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
11
No, I am afraid that Viking is too humdrum to be notable.
12
Her assemblages of apparently humdrum objects are catnip to galleries and collectors.
13
Away from the eerie graveyard of the cliff, the island is humdrum.
14
After all, we are but humdrum people, as the world goes now.
15
Human wreckage pays, and furnishes a bigger profit than more humdrum investments.
16
Rapper Eve further slums down the track with a superfluous, humdrum rap.
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Humdrum across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common