dry-as-dust
adjective
dull and boring.
dryasdust
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a variation of
dry-as-dust.
Example Sentences
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The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is a dryasdust, who is concerned about long, dull tables of the probate courts, lists of marriage licenses, and parish registers.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
I take the list from the dryasdust pages of The Congressional Record, December 12, 1907, from a speech by the Hon. Jeff Davis, United States Senator from Arkansas.
From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo
The boy takes some qualities after his father; he has a daring that is disturbing to an old dryasdust lawyer like me.
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
He fancied himself with this girl for his wife, and the delight of going back from the dull dryasdust labours of his city life to a home in which she would bid him welcome.
From Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
