Extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest.
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Examples for "dreariness "
Examples for "dreariness "
1 The day was dark and rainy; the landscape was a flat dreariness .
2 The charm of life was gone; there was nothing but dreariness left.
3 I see that all is not dreariness and misery in the Poplars.
4 As to the house itself, it was the dingy abode of dreariness .
5 My dreariness has not been induced by the look of the house.
1 He moved along with it, amazed by the blandness of the presence.
2 It is adding, they suggest, to a worrying blandness in musical tastes.
3 However impatient he may have been with her blandness he said readily:
4 It reflects a wildness and a kindness, and rejects blandness and self-importance.
5 Embedded in the blandness of the Corn Belt were plenty of Jokers.
1 To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity .
2 The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity , mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
3 He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity .
4 She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity .
5 What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity ?
1 The questions did not focus on just the chief news correspondent's boringness quotient.
2 His tone reflected the boringness and triviality of the incident.
3 If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry?
4 The series feigned to mock their homeland's eccentricity and boringness .
5 I need boringness -for nothing to be happening.
1 In Manchester United's ongoing insipidness under José Mourinho a perfect storm of problems is found.
2 The happy medium means respectability, and respectability means insipidness .
3 In fact, the quiz-show segment saves this kid-friendly title from the insipidness often endemic to children's software.
4 When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness ; 'airy' is for something trivial.
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.
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