dullish

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Recent Examples of dullish Although his dullish voice-overs attempt to establish him as a deep thinker and observer, Moss outwardly comes off as anything but: surly, cocky, needy, slackerish, immature. Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dullish
Adjective
  • The bodies of the dead and wounded could be seen lying on the pavement, one of them by a playground, in unverified videos circulating on Telegram, as grey smoke rose into the sky.
    Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Rather than reject their advances, Max performs the middle-aged male mating call: jogging in a pair of grey sweatpants with no underwear.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The collection also includes modular ribbed halters and tanks, featuring ombre effects transitioning between black, drab and white.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Her white dress and defiant smile stand out in a crowd of drab grayscale suits and uniforms.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Anything that isn’t someone bleeding out is boring to them, that kind of thing.
    Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
  • But here, it’s all viewed through a workplace-comedy format, which captures the kind of boring ordinariness of typical medical care while also getting at some of the big frustrations of understaffing.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • As preternaturally still sniper Elliott (Cosmo Jarvis) keeps an eye on al-Qaida operatives in a nearby marketplace, the rest of the guys do push-ups, tell jokes and listen to radio chatter in a sort of ominously monotonous limbo.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
  • However, the experience becomes monotonous, with no real end in sight.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Forget soggy sandwiches—this menu belongs in a Michelin guide.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • If the soil stays soggy around the tree, consider moving it to another location with better drainage.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • How the Thieves Pulled it Off The M.O. in the Gardner heist is much more prosaic than what people see on the silver screen.
    KC Baker, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Even a simple task like numbering posts chronologically by publishing date can become tedious.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Writer-director Dean Imperial loses on such a gamble with his tedious feature debut, which tracks an unhinged night of escapades between a bunch of poker buddies.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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