Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety.
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Examples for "humdrum "
Examples for "humdrum "
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.
1 Normalcy reassured; sameness was comfortable; to be average meant to be secure.
2 If in his rural designs there is sameness and tameness; if often
3 Three episodes sent to reviewers reveal a sameness from week to week.
4 Numerous natural clearings or prairies relieve the sameness of the luxuriant forests.
5 But she could not eat; the sameness of the food disgusted her.
1 Curiosity leads to engagement, which leads to new experiences, which destroys monotony .
2 The monotony of the pageant was broken; something new was announcing itself.
3 Certain is the vengeance of the young upon monotony ; nothing more certain.
4 The excitement was a pleasant break in the monotony of school life.
5 In the brown monotony of the street it stood out splendid, conspicuous.
6 There's a great deal of reassurance to be found in codified monotony .
7 And doubtless some break in the monotony gives a fillip of pleasure.
8 There is, indeed, a certain monotony in most tales of the kind.
9 Rapidity in speech results in indistinctness, and indistinctness leads invariably to monotony .
10 The night-jar spins his dark monotony on the branch of the pine.
11 One novel sight I saw in the interminable monotony of desert veldt.
12 This monotony is apparent in almost all dressed grounds of considerable extent.
13 What he most suffers from is the monotony - the confinement - from being in prison.
14 What she most suffers from is the monotony - the confinement - from being in prison.
15 The Finale lingered in a certain rhythmic monotony full of plaintive weariness.
16 There will be a break in the monotony that will suit you.
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