commonplace
adjective
ordinary; undistinguished or uninteresting; without individuality.
commonplaceness
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a word derived from
commonplace.
Example Sentences
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His large-featured, freckled face was kept from commonplaceness by its frank gray eyes, broad brow, firm chin and refined mouth.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
My enchanted garden had vanished, the spiked wall rose over my head, and before me, as I turned homeward, spread all the familiar commonplaceness of Church Hill.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Behind his utter commonplaceness there was the soul of Romeo, the passion of self-sacrifice that goes with great lovers.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
From the outset his aim was to portray life with entire fidelity in all its commonplaceness, and yet to charm the reader into a liking for this commonplaceness and into reverence for what it conceals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
But the most curious thing, after all, is the want of delight in any of the principal figures, and the comparative meanness and commonplaceness of even the folds of the drapery.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
