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
  • Though adidas has recently dropped the Tokyo in metallic and neon colorways, this leather-and-suede version featuring a muted grey body is, in our eyes, a more adaptable choice.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 May 2025
  • The officer saw a grey Cybertruck on fire, with an unbroken Molotov cocktail in an apple cider vinegar bottle lying nearby.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Amidst this drab landscape, both actors do their best.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The Midi Dress Midi dresses are the opposite of drab at the moment.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Belief that your institution is exempt from the hard, functional and often boring parts of the job leads to a slow decline.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • As a small-market team, for the majority of my life, Indiana has been looked at as boring or whatever the case may be.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • People with autism may unintentionally use monotonous, robotic speech that sounds abnormal or disinterested to others.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 14 May 2025
  • At Alcatraz, prisoners had a highly structured, monotonous daily routine.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Reduce Moisture Adding large quantities of wet kitchen scraps is one reason compost gets soggy.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 May 2025
  • That is directly tied to his inability to hit fairways, combined with the thick and soggy rough.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
  • What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • On more prosaic fronts, too, the film is patchy, with multiple subplots drifting erratically in and out of view, and an uneven quartet of central performances.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2025
  • Recognizing that more prosaic reality — while looking to at least buy his way towards his daughter’s good graces — our poet soon accepts a teaching gig at a local high-school.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The young Andrii’s first thought was this tedious job should to be done by a robot.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • But during a 2017 appearance at a conference in China, Cook expressed doubt about whether the U.S. labor pool had enough workers with the vocational skills required to do the painstaking and tedious work that Lutnick was discussing.
    Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025

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“Dullish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dullish. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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