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Recent Examples of prosy
By the start of the 20th century, instead of offering a few prosy sentences that gestured vaguely toward ingredient amounts, American recipes increasingly began with a list of ingredients in precise, numerical quantities: teaspoons, ounces, cups.
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Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosy
Adjective
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And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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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
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Historically, the condition is considered the result of monotonous, repetitive tasks like assembly-line jobs or positions in which employees feel undervalued or unrecognized for their work or that lack meaning, purpose and interest.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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High up on the fifth floor, the couple turned a monotonous 764-square-foot apartment into something that undeniably reflects their individual styles.—
Mailin Sophie Zieser,
Architectural Digest,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even a simple task like numbering posts chronologically by publishing date can become tedious.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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
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Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.—
Julian McWilliams,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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Anything that isn’t someone bleeding out is boring to them, that kind of thing.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2025
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Bring the shirt around your shoulders while adding extra color and dimension to your look—cold weather fits don’t have to be boring.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But the film never achieves the heights of the classic actioners that clearly inspired it, and its overuse of familiar genre tropes (for once, can’t the main villain be uncharismatic, like so many in real life?) soon becomes wearisome.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
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Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The battles are limited in number, and yet hinder the sense of progression considerably with their tiresome nature and frantic attack animations.—
Sarah Thwaites,
Rolling Stone,
3 Apr. 2025
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While the first half of the film proves engaging enough, the remainder grows tiresome as the Rohirrim take refuge, and Wulf — who’s handsome as drawn, but irredeemably ruthless — tries to force his way in.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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