drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
dronish
-
a word derived from
drone.
Example Sentences
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The process of learning should be got rid of altogether, being a clumsy, dronish way of acquiring knowledge, and one that tends to keep the brain in a perpetual state of dependence.
From The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst
We call things stupid, dronish, monotonous, because our faculties are not sufficiently exercised to see any other qualities in them.
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H Ryder
Were these Monthly Reviews and Magazines frothy, pert, or absurd, they might find some pardon, but to be dull and dronish is an encroachment on the prerogative of a folio.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
The rule for terminations may also interfere with this, called "Lowth's;" as in sizable, rising, dronish.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Drones are but the robbers of the hive; ladies educated to no purpose are but surfeited to a dronish condition on the sweets of literature.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
